A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is… — 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 Image
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 Image
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
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 Image
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
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 Image
Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
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 Image
