Leonardo da Vinci Quotes - Page 14

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• The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Eye, Dark

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.459, GENERAL PRESS

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• The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Vision, Littles, Merit

  Leonardo (da Vinci), Edward McCurdy (1939). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

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• Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Science, Law

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.51, eKitap Projesi

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• Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Fire, Darkness

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

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• O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Powerful, Mind, Action

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• Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Hands, Rivers, Lasts

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• The acquisition of 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

  Life, Useless Things, Acquisition

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

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• Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Learning, Science

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• The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Sensual, Firsts

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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• He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Confusion, Ontology, Doe

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• Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Slender, Certainty

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.41, eKitap Projesi

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• Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Passion, Intelligent, Intellectual

  Bradley I. Collins, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1997). “Leonardo, Psychoanalysis & Art History: A Critical Study of Psychobiographical Approaches to Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Evil, Lasts, Firsts

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.181, Profile Books

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• We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Growth, Earth, Flesh

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.395, GENERAL PRESS

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• Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Funny, Humor, Enemy

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Miracle, Wish

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• There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Men

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• Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  May, Able, Worthy

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Mind, Tails

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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• Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Understanding, Arguing

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• My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Simple, Issues, Experience

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.3, OUP Oxford

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• There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Humble, Light

  Leonardo da Vinci (2017). “Thoughts on art and life”, p.18, Youcanprint

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• Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Air, Evil

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• If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Long, Water

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• One's thoughts turn towards Hope.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Hope, Turns

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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