Ernest Dimnet

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are…

— Ernest Dimnet

Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather…

— Ernest Dimnet

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

— Ernest Dimnet

Ideas are the roots of creation.

— Ernest Dimnet

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

— Ernest Dimnet

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with…

— Ernest Dimnet

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

— Ernest Dimnet

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly…

— Ernest Dimnet

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

— Ernest Dimnet

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

— Ernest Dimnet

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

— Ernest Dimnet

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little…

— Ernest Dimnet

Ideas are the root of creation.

— Ernest Dimnet

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

— Ernest Dimnet

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare…

— Ernest Dimnet

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

— Ernest Dimnet

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of…

— Ernest Dimnet

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's…

— Ernest Dimnet

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and…

— Ernest Dimnet

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

— Ernest Dimnet

Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is…

— Ernest Dimnet

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

— Ernest Dimnet

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

— Ernest Dimnet

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

— Ernest Dimnet

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

— Ernest Dimnet