Ernest Dimnet quotes

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. (Ernest Dimnet)
Ideas are the roots of creation. View quote
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. View quote
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The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. View quote
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A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers. View quote
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We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. View quote
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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. View quote
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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. View quote
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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. View quote
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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. View quote
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Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. (Ernest Dimnet)
Personality is the knowledge that we are apart from the rest of the universe. View quote
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Every day you waste a chance, many chances in fact, of getting at your innermost consciousness by expressing yourself as you see yourself, and I say it is a pity because it makes you, year after year and day after day more like anybody else and more anonymous. View quote
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Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. Common parlance alludes to this weakness in the frequently heard phrase: PEOPLE DO NOT THINK. View quote
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Social intercourse, with its ... hypocrisy ... is highly productive of thought-hindering insincerity. View quote
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Self-expression is individuality, and our individuality is our self, which ought to be our chief concern. View quote
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You are not to disbelieve human science or think human reason invalid except when they venture outside their province. View quote
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All men saved from the scattering influences of society by a powerful incentive, a cause, or an ideal of individual perfection, seldom fear the danger of being distracted by comers and goers. View quote
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Very busy people always find time for everything. Conversely, people with immense leisure find time for nothing. View quote
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The more a man thinks the better adapted he becomes to thinking, and education is nothing if it is not the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Precisely. Theoretically, education is a mental training aiming at greater intellectual elasticity, but the question is whether education does not often strain, instead of train, a mind. View quote
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Where the writer produces that combination of perfect technique, human interest, and thruth, and can add to it that supreme touch, the perfection of art has been attained. (Ernest Dimnet)
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions. We also forget that genius is not genius all the time, although it is superior all the time. View quote
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