Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

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Leonardo da Vinci

Profession : Artist

Birth : April 15, 1452

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Leonardo da Vinci

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Leonardo da Vinci

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

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.

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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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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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He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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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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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci