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Ernest Dimnet quotes: Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

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

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

Ernest Dimnet quotes: Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

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

Ernest Dimnet quotes: The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

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 quotes: Ideas are the root of creation.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Ernest Dimnet quotes: Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

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

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

Ernest Dimnet quotes: The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

Ernest Dimnet quotes: 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.

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.

Ernest Dimnet quotes: Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Ernest Dimnet quotes: Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

Ernest Dimnet quotes: Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

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

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

Ernest Dimnet quotes: Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

Ernest Dimnet quotes: 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.

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.

Ernest Dimnet quotes: Ideas are the roots of creation.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

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

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

Ernest Dimnet quotes: Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

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

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