Tag: Leonardo da Vinci
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Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci
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How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.
Leonardo da Vinci
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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
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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Leonardo da Vinci
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In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci