Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

God sells us all things at the price of labor.
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.
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Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.
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He turns not back who is bound to a star.
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Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
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A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.
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Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.
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He turns not back who is bound to a star.
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Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
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The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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He turns not back who is bound to a star.
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Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.
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A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
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Oh Lord thou givest us everything at the price of an effort.
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Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm
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There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.
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He who does not value life does not deserve it.
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
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He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.
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I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
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To become an artist you have to be curious.
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poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
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Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.
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I love those who can smile in trouble...
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
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He who thinks little errs much…
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To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to these senses – ribelli ad essi sensi – such as the existence of God or of the soul or similar things over which there is always dispute and contention. And in fact it happens that whenever reason is wanting men to cry out against one another, which does not happen with certainties. For this reason we shall say that where the cry of controversy is heard, there is no true science, because the truth has one single end and when this is published, argument is destroyed for ever.
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Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.
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If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his person, which may not happen to be so beautiful as it ought to be. He must, therefore, guard particularly against that self-love, or too good opinion of his own person, and study by every means to acquire the knowledge of what is most beautiful, and of his own defects, that he may adopt the one and avoid the other.
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Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.
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No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.
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The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
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I am fully conscious that, not being a literary man , certain presumptuous persons will think that they may reasonably blame me; alleging that I am not a man of letters. Foolish folks! do they not know that I might retort as Marius did to the Roman Patricians by saying: That they, who deck themselves out in the labours of others will not allow me my own. They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words; and experience has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases.
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If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.
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It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
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Water is the driving force in nature.
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Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
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God sells us all things at the price of labor.
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art is never finished, only abandoned
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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
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Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting
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The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
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I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils
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What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.
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Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.
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As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise.-Leonard Da Vinci
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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.
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