Leonardo da Vinci Quotes - Page 4

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• Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Soul, Divine

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• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Design

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• Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Patience, Hurt

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• I love those who can smile in trouble.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Strength, Smile

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• Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fate, Moon, Oysters

  "The 48 Laws of Power". Book by Robert Greene ( p. 33), 2000.

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• There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Higher, Experimentation

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• He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Evil, Doe, Done

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• Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Patience, Clothes, Vex

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Self, Expression

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• Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Arundel MSS British Museum (transl. Edward MacCurdy in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1)

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• He who thinks little errs much.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

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

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• ...The world wouldn't be the world, without trouble.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  World, Trouble

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• Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Light, Looks

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• My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, Body

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• Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Obstacles, Rigor, Destroyed

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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.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Time, Rivers

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.258, OUP Oxford

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• I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Men, Compassion

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• He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fear, Danger

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.96, eKitap Projesi

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• An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Two, Weakness, Arches

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• Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Perseverance, Persistence, Yield

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

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• The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Imagination, Rudders, Faculty

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

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• When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Hands, Fortune, Behinds

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Work, Men, Folly

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.976, Delphi Classics

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• The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Pain, Feelings, Deeper

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