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Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Leonardo da Vinci

Intelligent, Experience, Judgment

Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1155, Library of Alexandria

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The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

Leonardo da Vinci

Mirrors, Mind, Should

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Some promises and time disappoint us

Leonardo da Vinci

Promise, Disappoint

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Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Travel, Moving

Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.58, OUP Oxford

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Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people.

Leonardo da Vinci

People, Wish, Looks

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Life well spent is long.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Life, Long

Irma A. Richter (ed.) 'Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' (World's Classics, 1952)

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O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time, Wrinkles, Mirrors

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

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Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.

Leonardo da Vinci

Beautiful, Effort, Faces

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I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time, Hopeful, Coincidence

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

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Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Nature, Travel

Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.105, OUP Oxford

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O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.

Leonardo da Vinci

Beauty, Desire, Causes

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

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A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

Leonardo da Vinci

Memories, Past, Long

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To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Leonardo da Vinci

Flower, Hands, Water

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The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Intelligent, Past, Mind

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

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Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Life, Confusion

Leonardo (da Vinci), Irma A. Richter, Thereza Wells (2008). “Notebooks”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

Leonardo da Vinci

Gold, Quests, Vain

Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

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The Bactrian have two humps; the Arabian one only. They are swift in battle and most useful to carry burdens. This animal is extremely observant of rule and measure, for it will not move if it has a greater weight than it is used to, and if it is taken too far it does the same, and suddenly stops and so the merchants are obliged to lodge there.

Leonardo da Vinci

Moving, Taken, Animal

Leonardo (da Vinci) (1956). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.431, Prabhat Prakashan

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To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

Leonardo da Vinci

Light, Air, White

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A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

Leonardo da Vinci

Men, Law, Bird

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translation by Edward MacCurdy)

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Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

Leonardo da Vinci

Men, Action, Painting

Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.213, OUP Oxford

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A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of the curves of the winds which as they strike against these projections, being forced to preserve their first impetus bend their straight course towards the sky with divers revolutions, at the beginning of which the birds come to a stop with their wings open, receiving underneath themselves the continual buffetings of the reflex courses of the winds.

Leonardo da Vinci

Ocean, Mean, Science

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Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Envy, Sorrow, Siege

Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

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Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

Guardian

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Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

Leonardo da Vinci

Heaven, Favour, Fame

Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.598, Delphi Classics

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Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

Leonardo da Vinci

Misery, Miserable, Restless

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.95, eKitap Projesi

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