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Causes Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.
- Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large…
- I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the…
- It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be…
- Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a…
- O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the…
- Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law…
- Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
- All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image…
- Small rooms and dwellings set the mind on the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
- Inequality is the cause of all local movements.
- A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of…
- The motive power is the cause of all life.
- Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without…
- All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is…
- Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a…
- Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
- The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. — Richard Armour
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson
- It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
- We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of… — Marcus Aurelius
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we… — Michelle Bachelet