Ernest Dimnet
Ernest Dimnet
Ernest Dimnet, French priest, writer and lecturer, is the author of The Art of Thinking, a popular book on thinking and reasoning during the 1930s...
inspirational education children
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
roots ideas creation
Ideas are the roots of creation.
inspirational happiness happy
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
fatal great happiness people repetition ruined slowly
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
life lessons rewards
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
people judgment repeats
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
god believe immortality
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.
past history interest
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
giving curiosity intense
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.
thinking habit creation
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
giving curiosity attention
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.
art bad-ass soul
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
life hard-work men
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.