Ernest Dimnet Famous Quotes



All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

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

"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."


Ernest Dimnet Quotations






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"Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself."
Swami Sivanada

"Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles."
Dorothy DeBolt

"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
Edith Sitwell

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost

"Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
Bruce Lee

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates

"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself."
Joel Hawes

"Knowing that everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying of the light -- that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense of futility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You can still be aware of it but find a place for it where you can actually exist comfortably and enjoy things."
Robert Smith

I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.
Mario M Cuomo