People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.
LEONARDO DA VINCIWisdom is the daughter of experience.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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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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We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.
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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
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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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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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If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.
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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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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.
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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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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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To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.
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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
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Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.
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He who walks straight rarely falls.
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Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
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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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Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
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Time stays long enough for those who use it.
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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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