Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
LEONARDO DA VINCIIntellectual passion drives out sensuality.
LEONARDO DA VINCIAll our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
LEONARDO DA VINCINature 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.
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.
LEONARDO DA VINCIPainting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
LEONARDO DA VINCIIt 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 VINCIRealize that everything connects to everything else.
LEONARDO DA VINCIPrinciples for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
LEONARDO DA VINCIAsk advice of him who governs himself well.
LEONARDO DA VINCIOnce 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.
LEONARDO DA VINCIThe painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
LEONARDO DA VINCIBeing willing is not enough. We must do.
LEONARDO DA VINCILearning never exhausts the mind.
LEONARDO DA VINCIWhere there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
LEONARDO DA VINCIThe time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
LEONARDO DA VINCIOne 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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