Ernest Dimnet Quotes

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

Education, Children, Themselves

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

Happiness, Great, Ruined

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

Soul, Arts, Acts

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

Life, Reward, Lessons

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

Book, State, Landscape

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest Dimnet

Philosophy, Serious, Gravitate

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

Cannot, Lose, Realize

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

Education, Thinking, Creation

Ideas are the root of creation.
Ernest Dimnet

Ideas, Creation, Root

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

Else, Somebody, Judgment

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

History, Past, Far

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Clergyman

Born: 1866

Died: 1954

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