Ernest Dimnet Quotes

"All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy."
- Ernest Dimnet
(Related: Philosophy)

"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
(Related: Habit, Americans, Improvement)

"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."
- Ernest Dimnet
(Related: Children)

"Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking."
- Ernest Dimnet
(Related: Education, Habit, Creation, Thinking)

"Ideas are the root of creation."
- Ernest Dimnet
(Related: Ideas, Creation)

"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."
- Ernest Dimnet
(Related: Consciousness, State)

"Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it."
- Ernest Dimnet
(Related: 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."
- Ernest Dimnet
(Related: Happiness, People, Catastrophes, Errors, Repetition)

"The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present."
- Ernest Dimnet
(Related: History, Past, Present)

"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."
- Ernest Dimnet
(Related: Architecture, Soul)