“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
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Famous Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
“It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
Source: Notebooks
“He who thinks little errs much.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”
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“Truth was the only daughter of Time.”
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“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.”
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“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”
Source: Notebooks
“Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.”
Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete
Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”
Source: Leonardo, Psychoanalysis & Art History: A Critical Study of Psychobiographical Approaches to Leonardo Da Vinci
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Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.”
Source: Notebooks
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The motive power is the cause of all life.”
Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete
“The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“That which has no limitations, has no form.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.”
Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete
“The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“Fear arises sooner than anything else.”
Source: Notebooks