Leonardo da Vinci

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Biography : Italian Renaissance polymath.
Born: 1452 - Died: 1519
Period:
16th century
15th century
Place of birth: Italy
Italy

Italy

Leonardo da Vinci - Quotes

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.
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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.

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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
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friendship

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci /

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Trivulzianus /

He who walks straight rarely falls.
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Atlanticus /

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Forster /

Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci /

life

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci /

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
A phrase often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci - Quotation of uncertain origin /

Nature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da Vinci /

Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci /

Water is the driving force of all nature.

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He who thinks little, errs much.
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to think

He who thinks little, errs much.

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Truth was the only daughter of Time.
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Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.
Leonardo da Vinci /

Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
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The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the central sense can most completely and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature; and the ear is the second, which acquires dignity by hearing of the things the eye has seen.
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nature

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
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The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
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art

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
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genius

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci /

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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opinion

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Leonardo da Vinci /

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
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truth

Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci /

life

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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life

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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art

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci /

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
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A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci /

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
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star