Ernest Dimnet (1866-1954), French priest, writer and lecturer, is the author of The Art of Thinking, a popular book on thinking and reasoning during the 1930s. (wikipedia)
Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.
Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
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.
Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.
Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.
Ideas are the root of creation.