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...
education teaching school
A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.
children elders imitation sound
When children sound silly, you will always find that it is in imitation of their elders
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.
past history interest
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
rooms six twelve
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.
thinking habit creation
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
people judgment repeats
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
philosophy serious conversation
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
reading mean names
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
life lessons rewards
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
book life-is-too-short life-is
Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.
humanity doe needs
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.
imagination long people
Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.
book landscape consciousness
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.