Leonardo da Vinci quotes - page 2

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! (Leonardo da Vinci)
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The senses are of the earth; Reason, stands apart in contemplation. View quote
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Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. View quote
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Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience. View quote
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The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind. View quote
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Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments. View quote
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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. View quote
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? (Leonardo da Vinci)
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. View quote
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Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts. View quote
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Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones. View quote
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. View quote
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Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor. View quote
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He who thinks little errs much. View quote
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The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang. View quote
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Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man. View quote
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Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory. View quote
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Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker. (Leonardo da Vinci)
To lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble. View quote
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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. View quote
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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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