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Leonardo da Vinci quotes - page 3
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Leonardo da Vinci
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci
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.
Leonardo da Vinci
To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.
Leonardo da Vinci
Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
Leonardo da Vinci
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.
Leonardo da Vinci
It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.
Leonardo da Vinci
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
Leonardo da Vinci
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.
Leonardo da Vinci
He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
Leonardo da Vinci
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.
Leonardo da Vinci
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.
Leonardo da Vinci
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.
Leonardo da Vinci
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.
Leonardo da Vinci
Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Leonardo da Vinci
What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.
Leonardo da Vinci
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.
Leonardo da Vinci
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