Ernest Dimnet Quotes

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• Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
• Ideas are the roots of creation.
• The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
• Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
• Ideas are the root of creation.
• Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the…
• Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
• Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
• Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard…
• A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.
• Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
• The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.
• Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.
• Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and…
• Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.
• A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
• You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in…
• 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…
• Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
• The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

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