Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
LEONARDO DA VINCIThere are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.
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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
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If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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Nature never breaks her own laws.
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We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one’s own.
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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
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He who thinks little errs much.
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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
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Nothing is hidden under the sun.
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
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You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
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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.
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The greater the man’s soul, the deeper he loves.
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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.
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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.
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Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
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