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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/whatever-we-read-from-intense-curiosity-gives-us-the-model-of-how-we/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

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## More by Ernest Dimnet

> [Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/americans-cannot-realize-how-many-chances-for-mental-improvement-they/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/mankind-might-be-divided-between-multitude-who-hate-to-be-kept/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/the-history-of-the-past-interests-us-only-in-so-far-as-it-illuminates/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Ideas are the roots of creation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/ideas-are-the-roots-of-creation/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/education-is-the-methodical-creation-of-the-habit-of-thinking/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/whatever-we-read-from-intense-curiosity-gives-us-the-model-of-how-we/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/architecture-of-all-the-arts-is-the-one-which-acts-the-most-slowly/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/the-happiness-of-most-people-we-know-is-not-ruined-by-great/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/learn-to-attack-things-frontally-but-according-to-the-most-scientific/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/most-people-suspend-their-judgment-till-somebody-else-has-expressed/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/prejudices-subsist-in-people-s-imagination-long-after-they-have-been/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/the-happiness-of-most-people-is-not-ruined-by-great-catastrophes-or/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Ideas are the root of creation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/ideas-are-the-root-of-creation/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/reading-to-most-people-means-an-ashamed-way-of-killing-time-disguised/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/a-school-is-a-place-through-which-you-have-to-pass-before-entering/)

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