Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. - Leonardo da Vinci - Quotesmemo.com

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Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought.

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Leonardo da Vinci

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

Education, Inspirational, Memories, Nothing, Spoils, Takes

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He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

Breakup, Deceived, Man, Men, Trust

An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.

Artist, Criticism, Higher, Lacks, Power, Self

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Happened, Inspirational, Long, Motivational, Sat, Success

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

Away, Come, Health, Inspire, Relaxation, Surer

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

Brain, Come, Heart, Inspirational, Life, Sad

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Domenico Gnoli

You begin looking at things and they look just fine, as normal as ever, but then you look for a while longer and your feelings get involved and they begin changing things for you and they go on and on till you only see your feelings, and that's why you see this mess.

Begin, Feelings, Fine, Goes On, Looks

Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot

Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought.

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited.

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Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton

To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.

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Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome K. Jerome

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.

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