Books Quote by Ernest Dimnet Download Open image “Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.” — Ernest Dimnet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Curiosity Giving Intense Models Should
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
This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand… — John Locke Copy Share Image
To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination. — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation… — Killer Mike 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
