“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.”
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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
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