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Cannot Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
- That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.
- Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot…
- One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the…
- No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.
- Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot…
- Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and…
- If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.
- Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice,…
- He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
- It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.
- I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if…
- Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result…
- As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do
- Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a…
- You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth…
- Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all…
- There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and…
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