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Ernest Dimnet Quotes

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy Picture Quote #1

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods Picture Quote #1

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers Picture Quote #1

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking Picture Quote #1

Ideas are the root of creation Picture Quote #1

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves Picture Quote #1

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Ideas are the roots of creation Picture Quote #1

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name Picture Quote #1

Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought Picture Quote #1

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 to each word results in attention to mere words Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation Picture Quote #1

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The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search Picture Quote #1

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 the contrast with ourselves is stinging Picture Quote #1

Prejudices subsist in people’s imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience Picture Quote #1

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present Picture Quote #1

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it Picture Quote #1

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 room Picture Quote #1

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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things Picture Quote #1

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul Picture Quote #1

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All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) Ideas are the root of creation (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) Ideas are the roots of creation (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) 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 to each word results in attention to mere words (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) 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 (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) 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 work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 the contrast with ourselves is stinging (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) Prejudices subsist in people’s imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) 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 room (Ernest Dimnet Quotes) 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 Quotes) Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul (Ernest Dimnet Quotes)