Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions. -Ernest Dimnet

 

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.


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This quote is just one of 11 total Ernest Dimnet quotes in our collection. Ernest Dimnet is known for saying 'Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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.

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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.

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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. -Ernest Dimnet
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Ideas are the root of creation.

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

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Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name. -Ernest Dimnet
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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.

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