Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words. — 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
