Leonardo da Vinci
- Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
- He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
- The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
- You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Learning never exhausts the mind.
- Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- A good painter is to paint two main things, namely men and the working of man"s mind.
- The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
- The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
- There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
- The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
- Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
- As a well - spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Our life is made by the death of others.
- While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
- He turn not back who is bound to a star.
- For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
- Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
- Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
- Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
- The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
- In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
- Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
- Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
- The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
- It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
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