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Famous Ernest Dimnet Quotes
“Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.”
“Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.”
Source: The Art of Thinking
“The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.”
Source: The Art of Thinking
“Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.”
Source: The Art of Thinking
“Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name”
“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”
Source: The Art of Thinking
Source: The Art of Thinking
“Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.”
“A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.”