Quote: "The Art of Thinking", Ernest Dimnet

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Just a little entry before bed - I've been flipping through Ernest Dimnet's The Art of Thinking on the bus for the past couple weeks, and there are a few bits in there worth reading. One little piece that might strike the fancy of any of us:

There are in the daily press a number of writers, male and female, who make it a point to have an opinion about everything. Day after day, four or five hundred words from their pens appear in which they express their views on an immense variety of subjects, most of them interesting. An expert runs little risk of erring in estimating how much time these fellow-writers of his have devoted to each individual question. It can be counted in minutes rather than in hours. The authors have seldom referred to any literature, even to an encyclopædia, they have been satisfied with summing up their own flimsy knowledge of the data and their flimsier impression of them. Yet, this is so much better than nothing that we read the articles through.

'Night!