Quote of Leonardo da Vinci - While I thought that I was...
Biography - Leonardo da Vinci:
Italian Renaissance polymath.
Born: 1452 - Died: 1519
Period:
16th century
15th century
Place of birth: Italy
Born: 1452 - Died: 1519
Period:
16th century
15th century
Place of birth: Italy
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Translation
(German, French)
See also...
Quotes for: to learn
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Quotes for: to live
To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
Quotes for: to die
He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.
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