Ernest Dimnet - The art of thinking (1929)

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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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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.

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Social intercourse, with its … hypocrisy … is highly productive of thought-hindering insincerity.

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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions. We also forget that genius is not genius all the time, although it is superior all the time.

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Self-expression is individuality, and our individuality is our self, which ought to be our chief concern

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Reading to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.

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Very busy people always find time for everything.
Conversely, people with immense leisure find time for nothing.

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Every day you waste a chance, many chances in fact, of getting at your innermost consciousness by expressing yourself as you see yourself, and I say it is a pity because it makes you, year after year and day after day more like anybody else and more anonymous.

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Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

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Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words.

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