Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
Ernest DimnetArchitecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Ernest DimnetWhatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.
Ernest DimnetReading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
Ernest DimnetPrejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.
Ernest DimnetThe object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.
Ernest DimnetToo often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
Ernest DimnetMankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.
Ernest DimnetThe history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
Ernest DimnetEvery now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.
Ernest Dimnet