"Children have to be educated, but they have……" — Ernest Dimnet
"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."
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22 Quotes by Ernest Dimnet
Ernest Dimnet has 22 quotes on this site.
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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.
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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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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have…
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Ideas are the root of creation.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when…
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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
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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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Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason…
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A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does…
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Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
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The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the…
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More Children Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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