Ernest Dimnet famous 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

#Inspirational #Happiness #Happy

Ideas are the roots of creation.
-- Ernest Dimnet

#Ideas #Roots #Creation

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
-- Ernest Dimnet

#Inspirational #Education #Children

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

#Reflection #Discovery #Mind

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

#Art #Bad Ass #Soul

Ideas are the root of creation.
-- Ernest Dimnet

#Ideas #Roots #Creation

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.
-- Ernest Dimnet

#Book #Life Is Too Short #Life Is

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

#Humanity #Doe #Needs

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

#Long #People #Imagination

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
-- Ernest Dimnet

#Book #Landscape #Consciousness

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
-- Ernest Dimnet

#God #Believe #Immortality

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

#Giving #Curiosity #Pages

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
-- Ernest Dimnet

#Reading #Mean #Names

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

#Education #Teaching #School

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

#Life #Hard Work #Men

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

#People #Judgment

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
-- Ernest Dimnet

#Thinking #Creation #Habit

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

#Twelve #Rooms #Six

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
-- Ernest Dimnet

#Data #Genius #Forget

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

#Past #History #Interest

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
-- Ernest Dimnet

#Philosophy #Serious #Conversation

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet

#Life #Lessons #Rewards

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

#Hate #Giving #Bored