17 quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

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[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Humankind

3.9 · 32 votes

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A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

Painting

4.9 · 46 votes · 180 reads

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

Death

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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Mind

4.1 · 35 votes

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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Common Sense

3.7 · 42 votes

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Leonardo da Vinci

Virtues
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
3.4 · 23 votes · 60 reads
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Various
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
4.7 · 64 votes · 18 reads
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Thought and Reason
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
4.9 · 58 votes · 151 reads
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Feelings
Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.
3.2 · 11 votes · 180 reads
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Defects
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
4.9 · 21 votes · 87 reads
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Virtues
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
3.7 · 37 votes · 66 reads
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Thought and Reason
Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.
3.0 · 21 votes · 18 reads
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Nature
Our life is made by the death of others.
3.1 · 58 votes · 84 reads
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Virtues
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will
4.4 · 31 votes · 186 reads
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Nature
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
4.4 · 45 votes · 24 reads
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Thought and Reason
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
4.0 · 59 votes · 10 reads
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Nature
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
4.8 · 40 votes · 69 reads
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