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Famous Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
“In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.”
“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
“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.”
“You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.”
“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
“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.”
“He who thinks little errs much.”
“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.”
“Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.”
“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”
“You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.”
“Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.”
“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain”
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
“He turns not back who is bound to a star.”