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

- Ernest Dimnet

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

- Ernest Dimnet

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.

- Ernest Dimnet

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

- Ernest Dimnet

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

- Ernest Dimnet

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

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

- Ernest Dimnet

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

- Ernest Dimnet

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

- Ernest Dimnet

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

- Ernest Dimnet

Ideas are the root of creation.

- Ernest Dimnet