All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
LEONARDO DA VINCIAll sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
LEONARDO DA VINCIOnce 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.
LEONARDO DA VINCIHe who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
LEONARDO DA VINCIThe 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 VINCINothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
LEONARDO DA VINCIYour brain is much better than you think; just use it!
LEONARDO DA VINCIAll our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
LEONARDO DA VINCIA painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
LEONARDO DA VINCIThe noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
LEONARDO DA VINCIVitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
LEONARDO DA VINCIThe five senses are the ministers of the soul.
LEONARDO DA VINCIIn 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 VINCIMan 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 VINCIA good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man’s mind.
LEONARDO DA VINCITruly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
LEONARDO DA VINCIStudy without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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