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Intelligent Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that…
- Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.
- Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
- Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.
- The motive power is the cause of all life.
- The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.
- Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
- Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.
- The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
- The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.
- That which has no limitations, has no form.
- Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.
- Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.
- The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.
- The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
- The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything…
- The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.
- Fear arises sooner than anything else.
- All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its…
- Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre…
- Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
- The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
- Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
- Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
- Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
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- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. — Francis Bacon
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- Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. — Dave Barry
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