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Memory Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.
- The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.
- Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the…
- It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as…
- Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
- Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
- Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.
- Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a…
- Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it…
- There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and…
More Memory Quotes
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
- I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury… — Emilie Autumn
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu
- Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. — Franklin P. Adams
- For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an… — John Banville
- God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. — James M. Barrie