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Quotes by Ernest Dimnet - (10 quotes)

Ernest Dimnet - From the Architecture category:

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. (Ernest Dimnet)

Ernest Dimnet - From the Books category:

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers. (Ernest Dimnet)

Ernest Dimnet - From the Children category:

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. (Ernest Dimnet)

Ernest Dimnet - From the Happiness category:

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)

Ernest Dimnet - From the Ideas category:

Ideas are the root of creation. (Ernest Dimnet)

Ernest Dimnet - From the Life category:

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. (Ernest Dimnet)

Ernest Dimnet - From the Philosophy category:

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. (Ernest Dimnet)

Ernest Dimnet - From the Standards category:

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. (Ernest Dimnet)

Ernest Dimnet - From the Thinking category:

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. (Ernest Dimnet)

Ernest Dimnet - From the Tradition category:

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. (Ernest Dimnet)