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...
book landscape consciousness
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
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.
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.
hate giving bored
Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.
data genius forget
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
giving curiosity intense
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.
scientific-method method
Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.
roots ideas creation
Ideas are the root of creation.
art bad-ass soul
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
reflection discovery mind
The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.
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.