Benefits Quote by Leonardo da Vinci Download Open image “The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.” — Leonardo da Vinci ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Benefits Defence Frail Gratitude Ingratitude Intelligent Memories Memory
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. — Lactantius Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good. — Varlam Shalamov Copy Share Image
How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new. — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
“People who have lost their memories have lost much of what makes them who they are. Memory is what enables us to learn by… — Patricia Wolfe Copy Share Image
It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Remembered memory is much more powerful than actually having your own memory. — Roma Tearne Copy Share Image
Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will. — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations,… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in me being called a racist. That issue related to my comment that Aboriginals received more benefits than non-Aboriginals. — Pauline Hanson Copy Share