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Learning never exhausts the mind.

Topics: Inspirational, Education, Teaching, Mislead Us, Student Learning

Quotation Leonardo da Vinci Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts never Quotes

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

Topics: Judgement, Deceiving

Quotation Leonardo da Vinci Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication Quotes

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

Topics: Understanding, Blame, Praise

Quotation Leonardo da Vinci Experience is a truer guide than the words of others Quotes

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Topics: True Friend, Knowledge, Betrayed

Quotation Leonardo da Vinci The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions Quotes

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.

Topics: Facts, Authority, Abandon

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Topics: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Making A Difference In The World, Knowing And Doing

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Topics: Enough, Willing, Making A Difference In The World, Just Being You, Knowing And Doing

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Topics: Nature, Reality, Water, Water Power, Water Resources

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

Topics: Emotional, World, Stills

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Topics: Inspirational, Leadership, Spiritual, Sophistication

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

Topics: Balance, Destruction

He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

Topics: Evil, Doe, Done

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Topics: Motivational, Character, Years

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

source: - Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.97, eKitap Projesi

Topics: Evil

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Topics: Happiness, Leadership, Intelligent, Procrastinator

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Topics: Art, Design, Abandoned, Mona Lisa, Mislead Us

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Topics: Inspirational, Art, Class, Mislead Us

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Self Mastery

Our life is made by the death of others.

Topics: Life, Death, Dying

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

Topics: Pain, Feelings, Deeper

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Topics: Nature, Law, Religion

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.

Topics: Death, Sleep, Thinking, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

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.

Topics: Animal, Honor, Genius

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

Topics: Daughter, Time, Only Daughter

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Topics: Art, Joy, Understanding, Spiritual Awareness, Mislead Us

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Crush, Obstacle In Life, Determination And Persistence

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

Topics: Real, Computer, Investigation, Funny Mathematics

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Topics: Simple, Stuff, Life Is

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.

Topics: Time, Men, Compassion, Inspirational Animal, Killing Animals

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Topics: Motivational, Love Life, Iron, Stagnation

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Taking Risks, Motivational Work

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Topics: Marriage, Funny Love, Funny Relationship, Mislead Us, Poisonous Snakes

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Topics: Karma, Wisdom, Realizing, Stagnant Water

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Art

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

Topics: Love, Life, Educational, Love At First Sight, Polymaths

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Topics: Life Changing, Epic, Power, Sounds Of Silence, Moment Of Silence

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

Topics: Kings, Men, Compassion, Inspirational Animal, Burial

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

Topics: Knowledge, Perception, Offspring

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Topics: Nature, Causes, Infinite

If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.

Topics: Errors, Criticism, Criticism Of Others

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Stars

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Topics: Inspirational, Education, Memories, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

Topics: Distance, Work, Taken, Programming Languages, Resting And Relaxation

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.

Topics: Loneliness, Fall, Being Alone, Thoughtlessness

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

Topics: Intelligent, Feelings, Martyrdom

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

Topics: Art, Men, Passing Away, Polymaths, Renaissance Man

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

source: - Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.24, eKitap Projesi

Topics: Experience, Guides

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

Topics: Artist, Space, Discipline, Small Rooms, Small Spaces

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

Topics: Stars, Turns

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Topics: Distance, Light, Sight, Solidity, Propinquity

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Topics: Inspirational, Patience, Hurt, No Patience, I Have No Patience

The knowledge of all things is possible

Topics: Inspirational, Students

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Topics: Bullying, Over You, Dominion, Getting Over You

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Topics: Art, Queens, Generations, Artists And Life

He who thinks little errs muchâ€¦

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Passion

He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own... because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them.

Topics: Eye, Drawing, People

Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

Topics: Iron, Water, Mind, Spoilt

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

Topics: Eye, Drawing, Perspective, Thorough Knowledge

In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

Topics: Art, Beauty Of Life

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

Topics: Answers, Countryside, Strange Phenomena, Seaweed

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Topics: Real, Real Friends, Secret, Criticise, Scolding

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

Topics: Hands, Water, Gone, Water Is Life, Water Resources

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

Topics: Time, Memories, Men, Lament

One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

Topics: Animal, One Day, Looks, Vivisection

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Topics: Daughter, Wisdom, Intelligent, Polymaths, Renaissance Man

In time and with water, everything changes.

Topics: Water, Things Change, Water Resources, Drinking Water, Drink Water

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Education, Self Education

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Topics: Airplane, Men, Heaven, Quills

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

Topics: Men, Two, Soul

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

Topics: Skills, Scientist, Should, Dyslexic

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

Topics: Basketball, Yield, Effort

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

Topics: Air, Predictions, Made, Linen

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

Topics: Art, Attitude, Men

And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.

Topics: Men, Ideas, Mind

Good writing comes from good talent.

Topics: Writing, Talent, Good Writing

Love shows itself more in adversitythan in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place isdarkest.

Topics: Life, Light, Shining, Depth Of Love, Polymaths

You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.

Topics: Attitude, Book, Blow

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Topics: Art, Creative, Immortal

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

Topics: Liberty, Faces, Prison

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Topics: Happy, Peace, Sleep, Live Life To Its Fullest, Meaningful Death

That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.

Topics: Doubt, Littles, Achieve, No Doubt

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

Topics: Passion, Intellectual, Sensuality

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

Topics: Genius, Sometimes, Mindset

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.

Topics: Nature, Artist, Opposites

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Topics: Work, Artist, Men, Lofty, Talent And Genius

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

Topics: Dwelling, Discipline, Mind, Tiny Houses, Small Rooms

Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.

Topics: Eye, Light, Looks, Admiring, Closing Your Eyes

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Topics: Art, Creativity, Poetry, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Art

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Topics: Life, Death, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying, Italian Renaissance

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Topics: Dominion

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Time

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.

Topics: Fate, Moon, Oysters, Seaweed, Crabs

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Topics: Memories, Intelligent, Damage, Tedious

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Topics: Cat, Pet, Masterpiece, Pet Loss, Feline

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Topics: Cynical, Tongue, Body, Innuendo

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

source: - Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.6, OUP Oxford

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Wise, Power Of The Mind, Mislead Us

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Topics: God, Work, Technology, Famous Last Words, Offended You

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

Topics: Stars, Wine, Discovery, Good Wine, Funny Wine

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Topics: Passion, Intelligent, Intellectual

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Topics: Education, Doe, Poor, Inspirational Art, Passion For Art

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Dream, Mislead Us, Painting And Poetry

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Topics: Art, Work, Feet, Engineering Inspirational, Engineers

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Topics: Ignorance, Eye, Doe, Mislead Us, Opening Your Eyes

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Topics: Life, Happiness, Death

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Topics: Art, Hands, Doe, Mona Lisa, Art And Creativity

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Topics: Life, Time, Rivers, Present Time, Rivers And Water

Life well spent is long.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Long

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Skydiving

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Topics: Love, Motivational, Smile, Strength In Adversity, Strength Of Mind

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Topics: Yield, Obstacles, Resolve

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

Topics: Jobs, Coal, Stuck

The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.

Topics: Men, Hands, Drawing, Parts Of The Body

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

Topics: Engineering, Foundation, Students, Civil Engineer, Civil Engineering

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Topics: Courage, Intelligent, Bravery

There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.

Topics: Distance, Eye, Color

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.

Topics: Lying, Mean, Light, Beginnings And Ends

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Topics: Life, Weed, Soil

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

Topics: Relaxation, Going Away, Littles

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Topics: Truth, Intelligent, Light, Darkness To Light, Light And Darkness

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

Topics: Truth, Intelligent, Chiefs

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

Topics: Writing, Bird, Firsts, Amazement

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Topics: Men, Self, Expression, Discipline And Self Control, Self Mastery

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.

Topics: Beauty, Beautiful, Nature, Subtlety, Inventing Things

It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.

Topics: Notes

For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

Topics: Beautiful, White, Wish

I have wasted my hours.

Topics: Hours

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Topics: Artist, Honor, Virtue

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

Topics: Mean, Science, World, Mathematics And Science

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

Topics: Men, Two, Mind

Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.

Topics: Light

Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.

Topics: Law, Vitality

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

Topics: Determination, Effort, Lord

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

Topics: Nature, Desire, World

The days are long enough for those who use them.

Topics: Long, Use, Enough

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Topics: Tree, Doe, Delight

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

Topics: Learning, Mind, Sap

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Topics: Vegetarianism, Body, Vegan, Vegan Health, Vegetarian Diet

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Business

life without love, is no life at all

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Passion, Romantic Movie Love, Without Love

Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.

Topics: Doe, Respect Life, Deserve

average human â€œlooks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

Topics: Moving, Thinking, Average

simplicity is the best sophistication

Topics: Simplicity, Sophistication

It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.

Topics: Ambition, Suffering, Ambitious, World Life, Gifts Of Life

Learn diligence before speedy execution.

Topics: Execution, Diligence, Application, Hurrying, Studious

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Topics: Art, Mind, Principles

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.

Topics: Hate, Spring, Great Love, Love Or Hate, Thorough Knowledge

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

Topics: Infinite, Finite

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Topics: Faith, Work, Labor

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Topics: Mother, Science, Errors

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Topics: Inspirational, Art, Creativity

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

Topics: Art, Constraints, Art Life

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Topics: Loss, Intelligent

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

Topics: Vision, Littles, Merit

I wish to work miracles...

Topics: Miracle, Wish, Action

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

Topics: Theory, Performances, Misfortunes

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

Topics: Perfection, Details

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Topics: Needs, Action, Motive, Discerning

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

Topics: Knowledge, Color

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

Topics: Judging, Purpose, Lasts

I love those who can smile in trouble...

Topics: Inspirational, Attitude, Adversity

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

Topics: Life, Passion, Humble

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

Topics: Soul, Five Senses, Ministers

Small rooms and dwellings set the mind on the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

Topics: Dwelling, Mind, Rooms

Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

Topics: Distance, Dark, Two, Marvelous Things, Caverns

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Topics: Inspirational, Iron, Doe, Stagnant Water, Stagnant

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Education, Inspiring Education

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Topics: Fall, Artist, Simplicity, Dividing

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Topics: Memories, Integrity, Patriotic

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

source: - Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.444, GENERAL PRESS

Topics: Inspirational, Spiritual, Men, Mislead Us, Deceptive

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

Topics: Learning, Intelligent, Creative

It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

Topics: Believe, Enough

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

Topics: Mirrors, Stills

Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!

Topics: Thinking, Brain, Use

The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.

Topics: Men, Soul, Deeper

Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

Topics: Stars, Storm, Courses, Navigate

average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

Topics: Moving, Thinking, Average

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

source: - Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.969, Delphi Classics

Topics: Experience, Thinker, Reasoning

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

Topics: Desire, Poor

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

Topics: Artist, Glimpse

People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

Topics: Being Strong, Character, People, Just Stay Strong, Strength In Adversity

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

source: - Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

Topics: Breakup, Men, Deceived

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

Topics: Winning, Want, Losing

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

Topics: Inspirational, Law, Causes

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

Topics: Beautiful, Wisdom, Clever, Clever Man, Beautiful Flower

once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Passion

All thoughts start from emotions.

Topics: Emotion

Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.

Topics: Education, Disappoint, Teaching And Education, Teaching Education

Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.

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

Topics: Return, Made, Manifestation

You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.

Topics: Wisdom, Trouble, Mess

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

Topics: Teacher, Wisest

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Passion

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

Topics: Love, Beautiful, Silence, Beautiful Words

People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing

Topics: People, Aries, Talent

The moment is timeless.

Topics: Moments, Timeless

To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

source: - Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

Topics: Sake, Reason, Enjoy

I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.

Topics: World, Want, Capture

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

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

Topics: Imagination, Rudders, Faculty

Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

Topics: Inspired, Vain, Labor

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

Topics: Obstacles, Rigor, Destroyed

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

Topics: Men, Soul, Divine

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