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Biography - Leonardo da Vinci:

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

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



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Quotes for: intelligence


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Quotes about intelligence:


Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.





To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.





What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.





Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.











Quotes

Quotes for: authority


Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Article III – The principle of any sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation. No body, no individual can exert authority which does not emanate expressly from it.





It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.





Competence without authority is as powerless as authority without competence.







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Leonardo da Vinci also said...


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.





Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.





All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.





As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.





He who walks straight rarely falls.





Wisdom is the daughter of experience.












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