Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

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People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

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Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

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Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude.

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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigor's of the mind.

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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

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I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

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The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

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Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

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Man has great power of speech, but the greater part thereof is empty and deceitful. The animals have little, but that little is useful and true and better is a small and certain thing than a great falsehood.

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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

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The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

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Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

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Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences, because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

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Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

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No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

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Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

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Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

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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 of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

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