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.
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.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.
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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.
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Realize that everything connects to everything else.
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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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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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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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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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My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
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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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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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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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People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing.
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Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!
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Motion is created by the destruction of balance.
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