30 Quotes by Ernest Dimnet

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

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

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

When children sound silly, you will always find that it is in imitation of their elders

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.

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

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.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

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