Leonardo da Vinci Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.”
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“It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.”
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“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
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“If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.”
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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.”
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“Being willing is not enough. We must do.”
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“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
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“I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.”
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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
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“Motion is created by the destruction of balance.”
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“He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.”
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“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”
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“Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.”
-- Leonardo da VinciSource : Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.97, eKitap Projesi
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“It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
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“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
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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.”
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“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
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“Our life is made by the death of others.”
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“The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain”
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“Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
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“It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.”
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“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
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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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“No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.”
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“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.”
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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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“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
-- Leonardo da Vinci
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