Ernest Dimnet Quotes

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Although technology has enhanced our lives in many ways, it has also ensured the erosion of imagination.

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

I don't want your vote. I want something more important. I want your commitment to think. Because once you start thinking, I'll get your vote.

Exterminate learning and there will be no more worries.

I hate reading. But I'm trying to force myself because studies have shown that it's literally the only way to matter-of-factly boost your IQ.

It's harder to scream at someone you just chatted with at lunch. I mean, if you're a superb actor, you might be able to do that, but I couldn't do it.