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All our knowledge originates in opinion.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci
Age: 67 †
Born: 1452
Born: April 15
Died: 1519
Died: May 2
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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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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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Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.
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Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.
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In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.
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He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.
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The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the sensus communis takes them and considers them.
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Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.
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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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Not to anticipate is already to moan.
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No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.
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O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
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It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
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Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.
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The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.
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Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.
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Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
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