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Power Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his…
- The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and…
- I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies…
- To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and…
- The motive power is the cause of all life.
- Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
- 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…
- Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true,…
- A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements,…
- 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…
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- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo