There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
LEONARDO DA VINCIPainting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.
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Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.
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The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.
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The five senses are the ministers of the soul.
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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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One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
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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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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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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.
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Time stays long enough for those who use it.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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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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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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Water is the driving force in nature.
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