Ernest Dimnet

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

— Ernest Dimnet

#also #children #educate #educated #left

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

— Ernest Dimnet

#architecture #arts #most #slowly #soul

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

— Ernest Dimnet

#enforced #immediate #lessons #life #life is a

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

— Ernest Dimnet

#consciousness #landscape #like #readers #state

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#gravitate #philosophy #serious #towards

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

#chances #conversations #habit #how #improvement

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#education #habit #methodical #thinking

Ideas are the root of creation. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#ideas #root

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

— Ernest Dimnet

#expressed #his #judgment #most #own

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

#catastrophes #destructive #errors #fatal #great