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Famous Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
“The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.”
“Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.”
“You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.”
“Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.”
“Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.”
“A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.”
“The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.”
“The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.”
“Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.”
“All our knowledge originates in opinion.”
“The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.”
“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain”
“The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.”
“Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.”
“Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.”
“All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.”
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
“Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.”