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Leonardo Da Vinci Inspirational Quotes (330)

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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
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People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing
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Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.
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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.
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Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.
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The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
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In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therefore you should make the building... wall which is more distant less defined and bluer... five times as far away, make five times as blue.
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I love those who can smile in trouble.
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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.
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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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He who fears dangers will not perish by them.
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All our knowledge originates in opinion.
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We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.
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O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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He who walks straight rarely falls.
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Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.
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Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.
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O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.
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The days are long enough for those who use them.
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He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
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Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
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I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.
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Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments.
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