- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes
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- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.
- Casual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning never exhausts the mind.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Logic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
- Master
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
- Memorial Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Invisible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our life is made by the death of others.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Driving Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
- Muscle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life well spent is long.
- Nov 07, 2020
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- Origins
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- Nov 07, 2020
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Pet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have wasted my hours.
- Finished
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Devise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
- Divisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.
- Destroyed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Medici created and destroyed me.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
- Gain
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- Nov 07, 2020
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
- Mistress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020