Leonardo da Vinci quotes - page 3

Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act. (Leonardo da Vinci)
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. View quote
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Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings. View quote
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Ask advice of him who governs himself well. View quote
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. View quote
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The smallest feline is a masterpiece. View quote
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. View quote
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Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. View quote
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To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man. View quote
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Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light. View quote
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Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Learning never exhausts the mind. View quote
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. View quote
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It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last. View quote
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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. View quote
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He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss. View quote
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Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going. View quote
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He who does not punish evil commands it to be done. View quote
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The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known. View quote
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Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun. View quote
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. (Leonardo da Vinci)
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. View quote
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. View quote
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Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie. View quote
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Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

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Occupation: Italian Artist
Born: April 15, 1452
Died: May 2, 1519
Quotes count: 421
Wikipedia: Leonardo da Vinci

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