Quotes by Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo on excellence
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"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on experience
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"Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on fear
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"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on genius
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"[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on humankind
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"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on idleness
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"Our life is made by the death of others."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on life
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"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on mind
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"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo on painters and painting
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"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 be powerless to vex your mind."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on patience
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"Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on authority
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"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."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on rest
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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."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on body
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"I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on thoughts and thinking   

"Time stays long enough for those who use it."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on time
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"Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on understanding
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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on understanding
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"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on common sense
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"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on death
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"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on death
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"And Wisdom be the Daughter of Experience"

Da Vinci, Leonardo on wisdom
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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on desire
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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. "

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on flight in sky