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Leonardo da Vinci quotes (19) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Mind The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Illusions Nature never breaks her own laws. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Nature Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Art Thou O God dost sell us all good things at the price of labor. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Labor It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Begin Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Intellect The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Dream Just as courage imperils life fear protects it. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Fear Vows begin when hope dies. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Hope 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. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Murder 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. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Practice He turns not back who is bound to a star. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Star You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.... the height of a mans success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment.... And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Self Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Unsorted Wisdom is the daughter of experience. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Experience Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Action 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. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Reason While I thought that I was learning how to live I have been learning how to die. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Death |
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