Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share
Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share
Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share
Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share
A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share
