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• Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Intelligent, Doe

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.20, eKitap Projesi

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• Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Iron, Water, Mind

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.19, eKitap Projesi

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• Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Learning, Science

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• There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to them, and there are an equal number of occasions when these lateral muscles move the lips of this mouth, replacing it where it cannot return of itself, because the function of muscle is to pull and not to push except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Moving, Numbers, Mouths

  Dell' Anatomia Vol. 1, Ch. III

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• All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Ends, Exception

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.6, eKitap Projesi

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• You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Bullying, Kids

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.987, Delphi Classics

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• The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mind, Body, Study

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• Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Intelligent, Causes

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.8, OUP Oxford

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• The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Bird, Weight, Earth

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Creativity, Eye, Air

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• Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Practice, Knowing, Entering

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• Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Slender, Certainty

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.41, eKitap Projesi

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• The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Intelligent, Chiefs

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

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• If the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Lovers, Ifs

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.258, Lulu.com

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• The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Mean, Light

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.384, Delphi Classics

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• It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Evil, Lasts, Firsts

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.181, Profile Books

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• There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Men

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• The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Perception, Earth, Reason

  Leonardo (da Vinci), Edward McCurdy (1939). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

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• The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Order, Solitude, Mind

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• If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Honor, Littles, Foundation

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• O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wise, Art, Sleep

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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• A long life is a life well spent.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Long, Wells

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.87, eKitap Projesi

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• My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Simple, Issues, Experience

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.3, OUP Oxford

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• Life, when is spent well, is long.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Long, Wells

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• Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Queens, Generations

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