Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

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Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

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Learning, Intelligent, Creative

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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Inspirational, Leadership, Spiritual

"The Recognitions". Book by William Gaddis, "Anselm", p. 457, 1955.

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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

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Inspirational, Life, Education

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Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.

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Beauty, Simple, Stuff

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Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

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Experience, Guides

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.24, eKitap Projesi

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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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Inspirational, Art, Class

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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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Inspirational, Spiritual, Art

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.444, GENERAL PRESS

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It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

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Believe, Enough

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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

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Art, Creative, Immortal

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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

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Mirrors, Stills

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Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!

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Thinking, Brain, Use

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Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

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Stars, Storm, Courses

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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Art, Mislead Us, Joy

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average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

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Moving, Thinking, Average

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I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

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Desire, Poor

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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

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Life Changing, Epic, Power

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If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

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Facts, Authority, Abandon

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You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

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Men, Self, Expression

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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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Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

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Love, Life, Adversity

"Da Vinci Notebooks".

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Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

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Perfection, Details

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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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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.

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Love, Motivational, Strength

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once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

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Inspirational, Life, Passion

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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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Inspirational, Law, Causes

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Born: April 15, 1452
Died: May 2, 1519
Occupation: Painter
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