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Famous Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
Source: Notebooks
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
Source: Notebooks
“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”
“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Our life is made by the death of others.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“Nature never breaks her own laws.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Source: Leonardo on the Human Body
“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”
Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete
“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
Source: Notebooks
Source: Notebooks
“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
“Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.”
“once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up”
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
Source: Notebooks
“He who thinks little errs much.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.”
“Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.”
Source: Notebooks
Source: Notebooks