Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory."
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"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others."
Leonardo da Vinci
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."
Leonardo da Vinci
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers."
Leonardo da Vinci
"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 necessity."
Leonardo da Vinci
"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 exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Water is the driving force of all nature."
Leonardo da Vinci
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
Leonardo da Vinci
"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"
Leonardo da Vinci
"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."
Leonardo da Vinci
"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Leonardo da Vinci
"A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve."
Leonardo da Vinci
"The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Just as courage imperils life fear protects it."
Leonardo da Vinci
"A well-spent day brings happy sleep."
Leonardo da Vinci
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