It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
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.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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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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All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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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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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
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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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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
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It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
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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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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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Fear arises sooner than anything else.
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