Tag: Leonardo da Vinci
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da Vinci
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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
Leonardo da Vinci
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo da Vinci