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Ernest Dimnet

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French writer (1866–1954)

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Born
1866
Died
1954
Works
24

Top works

  • From a Paris balcony
  • French grammar made clear
  • Grammaire anglaise simplifiée, à l'usage de toutes les classes
  • Paul Bourget
  • Si xiang de yi shu

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Person
Country
RO

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Quotes

  • Ideas are the root of creation.
  • Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
  • Social intercourse, with its … hypocrisy … is highly productive of thought-hindering insincerity.
  • The more a man thinks the better adapted he becomes to thinking, and education is nothing if it is not the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Precisely. Theoretically, education is a mental training aiming at greater intellectual elasticity, but the question is whether education does not often strain, instead of train, a mind.
  • Very busy people always find time for everything. Conversely, people with immense leisure find time for nothing.
  • Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. Common parlance alludes to this weakness in the frequently heard phrase: PEOPLE DO NOT THINK.

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date of birth
1866-07-09
date of death
1954-12-08
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Ernest Dimnet
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