Benjamin Jowett Famous Quotes



"To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another."

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.


Benjamin Jowett Quotations






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"But screw up your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail."
Mary Bertone

For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel Butler

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
Tom Lehrer

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
Thomas Mann

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Peter Ustinov

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Jonathan Swift

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
Anaxagoras

"The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do."
John Stuart Mill

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Howard Aiken

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future."
Euripides