Leonardo da Vinci Quotes - Page 9

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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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• Study the science of art and the art of science.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Study

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• One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.

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  Born, Small Beginnings

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.487, GENERAL PRESS

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• Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

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  Courage, Intelligent, Bravery

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.263, OUP Oxford

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• Every man at three years old is half his height

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  Men, Years, Height

  Irma A. Richter (ed.) 'Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' (World's Classics, 1952) p. 149

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• The cat is nature's masterpiece.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Cat, Masterpiece

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• No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

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  Real, Math, Computer

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• Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

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  Small Rooms, Dwelling, Discipline

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.182, GENERAL PRESS

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• If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.

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  Honor, Littles, Foundation

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• In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

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  Art, Lying, Hands

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.185, OUP Oxford

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• The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

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  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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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?

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  Wise, Art, Sleep

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

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• Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

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  Work, Men, Folly

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.976, Delphi Classics

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• Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fate, Moon, Oysters

  "The 48 Laws of Power". Book by Robert Greene ( p. 33), 2000.

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• The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Good Man, Desire

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1203, Delphi Classics

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• One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Hate, Spring, Thorough Knowledge

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• The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

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  Animal, Creating, Mind

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• The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

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  Truth, Intelligent, Chiefs

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

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• The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

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  Bird, Weight, Earth

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

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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.

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  Practice, Sound, Pilots

  Dell' Anatomia Vol. II, Ch. 29

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• Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.

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  Judging, Facts, Painting

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1939). “The literary works of Leonardo da Vinci”

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• Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

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  Spiritual, Mindfulness, Found

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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• The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

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  Book, Mechanic, Invention

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

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• We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Promise, Disappoint

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

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  People, Kind

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