Famous Benjamin Jowett Quotes
“Doubt comes in at the window, when Inquiry is denied at the door.”
On the interpretation of Scripture http://www.bible-researcher.com/jowett1.html
“Learn just enough of the subject [metaphysics] to enable your mind to get rid of it.”
Quoted by Geoffrey Madan (1895-1947)
Actually from one of John Dewey's lectures, reprinted in his Reconstruction in Philosophy (2004), p. 96.
Misattributed
In conversation with Logan Pearsall Smith. Reported in Smith's Unforgotten Years (1938) p. 169.
Other
“[The office of the interpreter] is to read Scripture like any other book.”
On the interpretation of Scripture http://www.bible-researcher.com/jowett1.html
Benjamin Jowett Quotes
“We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?”
Quoted by Geoffrey Madan (1895-1947)
