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Doe Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of…
- After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of…
- King of the animals-- as thou hast described him-- I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest--because thou doest only help…
- He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.
- There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
- Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.
- Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.
- To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is…
- He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.
- Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do…
- The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the…
- Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true…
- Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
- Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
- Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
- He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and…
- Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
- He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.
- Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
- Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
- Love shows itself more in adversitythan in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place isdarkest.
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