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Leonardo Da Vinci Inspirational Quotes (329)

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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same
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The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
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The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
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Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.
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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.
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Poor is the man who desires a lot
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I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?
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There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.
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Good culture is born of a good disposition and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.
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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.
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It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
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To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.
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Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.
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The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane
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Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.
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Strive to preserve your health and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.
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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.
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Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?
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Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.
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The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
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Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.
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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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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
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