Leonardo da Vinci quotes - page 16

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
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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.
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A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
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The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. (Leonardo da Vinci)
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.
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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.
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
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The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
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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.
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I have wasted my hours.
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Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
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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. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
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Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.
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O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.
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Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
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