Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
LEONARDO DA VINCIWisdom is the daughter of experience.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
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Nature never breaks her own laws.
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Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
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The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
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People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing.
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
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Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
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People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.
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I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.
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Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
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