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“It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.”

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Kenneth Clark

Kenneth Clark was a renowned psychologist, born on July 24, 1914, and passed away on May 1, 2005. He made significant contributions to the field of psychology, particularly in the areas of cognitive psychology and child psychology. more

“When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.”

Ifs Men Trying Firsts Doe Inspiration Motivation Suffering Heaven Sides Christ Beats Casts Temptation Flaws Bells Crowns Founders Beaten Hammers Steeples

Author:Richard Cecil

“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”

Strong Inspiring Poor Poverty Argument Favors Very Strong Strong Women Jane Being Single Matrimony Propensity Single Women

Author:Jane Austen

“Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose. We may deduce consequences, and never be the wiser.”

Firsts May Care Purpose Principles Clear Consequence Infinite Take Care Reasoning Delusion Wiser

Book:Berkeley

Source: Berkeley

“For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet being striped of that garniture, the ideas shrink into a narrow compass, and are viewed almost by one glance of thought.”

Ideas Hard Seems Happens Notion Glances Compass Shrinks Tedious

Author:David Berman

“There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.”

Mind Wonderful Arise Formation Obstruction

Book:Novum Organum

Source: Novum Organum

“My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she's asleep, I go over there and write misspelled words on them.”

Writing Doe Humor Funny White Girlfriend Nails My Girlfriend Misspelled Words

Author:Steven Wright

“They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.”

Values Favors

Author:Pliny the Younger

“It seems to me there's so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe, if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamt of.”

Ifs World Believe Looks Hard Seems Eye Universe I Believe Wonder Average

Author:Richard Curtis

“Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?”

People Love Littles Two Bits Love Is Little Bit Romantic Romantic Love Favour Deluded

Author:David Mitchell

“There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A caterpillar eats a leaf; a robin eats the caterpillar; a hawk eats the robin. When the plant, caterpillar, robin, and hawk die, they are in turn consumed by decomposers.”

Science Dies Turns Natural Alive Source Waste Plant Organisms Leafs Consumed Ecosystems Robins Hawks Caterpillars

Author:G. Tyler Miller

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