Ernest Dimnet Quotes

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

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• A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

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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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  Topics in Art, Soul

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• All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

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  Tags in Philosophy, Conversations

• 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.

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  Tags in American, Realize, Improvement

• Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

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  Topics in Creation, Education

  Tags in Thinking

• Ideas are the root of creation.

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• Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

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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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  Tags in People, Judgment

• 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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  Tags in Happiness, People

• Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

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  Topics in Children, Education

  Tags in Educated

Ernest Dimnet (11)

Birth:	1866
Death:	1954
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Lecturer, Priest, Writer

About

Ernest Dimnet was a French priest, writer and lecturer. He is the author of The Art of Thinking, a popular book on thinking and reasoning during the 1930s. He wrote several books include: Paul Bourget, Bronte Sisters, and What We Live by.

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