Leonardo da Vinci Quotes - Page 11

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• Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Practice, Sound, Pilots

  Dell' Anatomia Vol. II, Ch. 29

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• We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Movement, Body, Celestial Bodies

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• Good writing comes from good talent.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Writing, Talent, Good Writing

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1959). “Philosophical diary”

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• Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Dark, Rocks

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.514, GENERAL PRESS

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• There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  People, Kind

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• The cat is nature's masterpiece.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Cat, Masterpiece

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• Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

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• A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Two, Mind

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• The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Vision, World

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• I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Answers, Strange Phenomena, Countryside

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• To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Noble, Truth Is

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• I wish to work miracles.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Miracle, Wish, Action

  Leonardo da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.119, Profile Books

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• While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Loneliness, Solitude, Half

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2013). “Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master”, p.516, Hachette UK

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• Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Quilts, Lying, Renown

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• For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, White, Wish

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• The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Soul, Body

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.106, OUP Oxford

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• The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mind, Body, Study

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• Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Book, Medicine, Drug

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Death, Sleep, Thinking

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• 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.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Mean, Light

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.384, Delphi Classics

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• He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Use, Citing

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.26, eKitap Projesi

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• Nature alone is the master of true genius.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Genius, Masters

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• Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Intelligent, Needs

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1146, Library of Alexandria

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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.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Evil

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

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• A gray day provides the best light.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Gray, Gray Days

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