“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.” WellsSaidDrawingLeonardo Author:Kenneth Clark
“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.” IfsMenTryingFirstsDoeInspirationMotivationSufferingHeavenSidesChristBeatsCastsTemptationFlawsBellsCrownsFoundersBeatenHammersSteeples Author:Richard Cecil
“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.” StrongInspiringPoorPovertyArgumentFavorsVery StrongStrong WomenJaneBeing SingleMatrimonyPropensitySingle 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.” FirstsMayCarePurposePrinciplesClearConsequenceInfiniteTake CareReasoningDelusionWiser 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.” IdeasHardSeemsHappensNotionGlancesCompassShrinksTedious Author:David Berman
“There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.” MindWonderfulAriseFormationObstruction 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.” WritingDoeHumorFunnyWhiteGirlfriendNailsMy GirlfriendMisspelled Words Author:Steven Wright
“They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.” ValuesFavors 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.” IfsWorldBelieveLooksHardSeemsEyeUniverseI BelieveWonderAverage Author:Richard Curtis