Leonardo da Vinci Memories Quotations

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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