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" (1866-1954), French priest, writer and lecturer, is the author of The Art of Thinking, a popular book on thinking and reasoning during the 1930s.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous clergy! More Ernest Dimnet on Wikipedia.Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ideas are the root of creation.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.
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.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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