Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation.

Ernest Dimnet's Popular Quotes

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

- Ernest Dimnet

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.

- Ernest Dimnet

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

- 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

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

- Ernest Dimnet

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

- Ernest Dimnet

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

- Ernest Dimnet

Ideas are the roots of creation.

- Ernest Dimnet

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

- Ernest Dimnet