A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man’s mind.
LEONARDO DA VINCIPatience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.
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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
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The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.
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Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
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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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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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