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.
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.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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Life without love, is no life at all.
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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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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
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A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.
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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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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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Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
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If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
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Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
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The greater the man’s soul, the deeper he loves.
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The moment is timeless.
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