Benjamin Jowett was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato and Thucydides. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford.
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Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
—Benjamin Jowett
Topics: Doubt
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.
—Benjamin Jowett
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
—Benjamin Jowett
Topics: Reading, Books
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.
—Benjamin Jowett
Topics: Service, Teaching
Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
—Benjamin Jowett
Topics: Logic
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