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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Leonardo da Vinci quotes

Italian Artist, Scientist, Painter April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519

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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. Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci quote: "The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams, than the..."
The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams, than the imagination awake. Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci quote: "Nature never breaks her own laws."
Nature never breaks her own laws. Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci quote: "Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to..."
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world. Leonardo da Vinci
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie. Leonardo da Vinci
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci quote: "The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci quote: "The time will come when men such as I will look upon the..."
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci quote: "All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of..."
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci quote: "I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach..."
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. Leonardo da Vinci
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. Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci quote: "In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has..."
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. Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci quote: "Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci quote: "Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing..."
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. Leonardo da Vinci
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. Leonardo da Vinci

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