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Ernest Dimnet Biography:
French priest, writer and lecturer, is the author of "The Art of Thinking", a popular book on thinking and reasoning during the 1930s. Born in France, he moved to the United States after the First World War. The Art of Thinking was on the best-seller lists in the US in the 1930s, alongside Dale Carnegie's self-help works, but it is mostly forgotten today.
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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Category: Education

Author: Ernest Dimnet

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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Category: Education

Author: Ernest Dimnet

Ideas are the root of creation.

Category: Idea

Author: Ernest Dimnet

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

Category: Life

Author: Ernest Dimnet

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

Category: Judgement

Author: 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.

Category: Happiness

Author: Ernest Dimnet

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

Category: Past

Author: Ernest Dimnet

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

Category: Books

Author: Ernest Dimnet

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

Category: Arhitecture

Author: Ernest Dimnet

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