Ernest Dimnet
Ernest Dimnet (1866-1954) is the author of The Art of Thinking, a popular book on thinking and reasoning during the 1930s. Born in France, he moved to the United States after the First World War. The Art of Thinking was on the best-seller lists in the US in the 1930s, alongside Dale Carnegie's self-help works, but it is mostly forgotten today.
5 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.
— Ernest Dimnet
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
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
— Ernest Dimnet
Ideas are the roots of creation.
— Ernest Dimnet
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
— Ernest Dimnet