Ernest Dimnet Quotes

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.

We All More Or Less Consciously Note This. We Cannot Help Observing That All Serious Conversations Gravitate Towards Philosophy.

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.

Most People Suspend Their Judgment Till Somebody Else Has Expressed His Own And Then They Repeat It.

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.

Too Often We Forget That Genius, Too, Depends Upon The Data Within Its Reach, That Even Archimedes Could Not Have Devised Edison's Inventions.

Prejudices Subsist In People's Imagination Long After They Have Been Destroyed By Their Experience.

Ideas Are The Root Of Creation.

The Object Of Reflection Is Invariably The Discovery Of Something Satisfying To The Mind Which Was Not There At The Beginning Of The Search.

A Book, Like A Landscape, Is A State Of Consciousness Varying With Readers.

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.

Learn To Attack Things Frontally But According To The Most Scientific Methods.