Leonardo da Vinci Quotes - Page 8

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• All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Knowledge, Perception, Offspring

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.969, Delphi Classics

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• The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Eye

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

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• The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Artist, Glimpse

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• I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Serving Others, Tire, Enough

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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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• It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Experience, Labor

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• Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspired, Vain, Labor

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• That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Riches, Wealth, Rich

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.83, eKitap Projesi

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• simplicity is the best sophistication

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Simplicity, Sophistication

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• People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing

  Leonardo da Vinci

  People, Aries, Talent

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• You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Fear, Understanding

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

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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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• 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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• To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Good Man, Speak

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

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• Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Constraints, Art Life

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• It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Vex, Matter

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

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• There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Science, Understanding

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Philosophy (p. 64)

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• The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Artist, Evil

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.987, Delphi Classics

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• Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Writing, Three

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.251, GENERAL PRESS

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• Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Envy, Scare, Virtue

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1198, Library of Alexandria

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• Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

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

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• Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Artist, Opposites

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Order, Solitude, Mind

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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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• True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Spring, Great Love, Littles

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