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A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

Leonardo da Vinci

Attitude, Men, Two

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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.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time, Memories, Past

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.84, eKitap Projesi

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Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

Leonardo da Vinci

Iron, Water, Mind

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.19, eKitap Projesi

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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

Memories, Integrity, Patriotic

"The Book of Unusual Quotations" by Rudolf Flesch, (p. 12), 1957.

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Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Queens, Generations

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And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.

Leonardo da Vinci

Men, Ideas, Mind

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A long life is a life well spent.

Leonardo da Vinci

Life, Long, Wells

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.87, eKitap Projesi

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O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

Leonardo da Vinci

Wise, Art, Sleep

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.

Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge, Bears, Witness

Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.242, Lulu.com

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I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Leonardo da Vinci

Creativity, Eye, Air

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Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

Leonardo da Vinci

Practice, Knowing, Entering

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The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Life, Lovers

Leonardo (da Vinci) (1980). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Oxford University Press, USA

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Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.

Leonardo da Vinci

Movement, Failing, Usefulness

Leonardo da Vinci, Jean Paul Richter, Mrs. R. C. Bell (1970). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.357, Courier Corporation

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The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.

Leonardo da Vinci

Eye, Needs, Invisible

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Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.

Leonardo da Vinci

Horse, Knows

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.264, GENERAL PRESS

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There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to them, and there are an equal number of occasions when these lateral muscles move the lips of this mouth, replacing it where it cannot return of itself, because the function of muscle is to pull and not to push except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Leonardo da Vinci

Moving, Numbers, Mouths

Dell' Anatomia Vol. 1, Ch. III

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The 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.

Leonardo da Vinci

Lying, Godly, Speaking Well

Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.268, OUP Oxford

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The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

Leonardo da Vinci

Perception, Judgment, Organs

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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

Intelligent, Ends, Exception

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.6, eKitap Projesi

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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

Leonardo da Vinci

Kings, Animal, Men

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A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Attitude, Men

Leonardo (da Vinci) (1998). “Leonardo Da Vinci: 1452-1519”, Konemann

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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.

Leonardo da Vinci

Hurt, Clothes, Feelings

Leonardo (da Vinci) (1971). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

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My body is not a tomb for animals.

Leonardo da Vinci

Animal, Body, Animal Rights

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The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Sex, Actors

Dell' Anatomia Fogli B (transl. Edward MacCurdy in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. III)

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Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Leonardo da Vinci

Memories, Intelligent, Doe

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.20, eKitap Projesi

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