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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes about Memories

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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Education, Memories
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Self Improvement, Use

He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Use, Citing
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.26, eKitap Projesi

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Intelligent, Doe
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.20, eKitap Projesi

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 a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Mind, Tails
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Intelligent, Benefits
Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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 good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

Leonardo da Vinci
Time, Memories, Past
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.84, eKitap Projesi

Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Men, Virtue
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.493, GENERAL PRESS

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Integrity, Patriotic
"The Book of Unusual Quotations" by Rudolf Flesch, (p. 12), 1957.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Understanding, Arguing

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Discussion, Invoke

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Past, Long

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.

Leonardo da Vinci
Death, Memories, Loss
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.81, eKitap Projesi

Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Men, Deeds
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1958). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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