Discovery Quote by Ernest Dimnet

“The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.”

Ernest Dimnet

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

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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