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Leonardo da Vinci

Read through the most famous quotes from Leonardo da Vinci




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


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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.


— Leonardo da Vinci


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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.


— Leonardo da Vinci


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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.


— Leonardo da Vinci


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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.


— Leonardo da Vinci


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Learning never exhausts the mind.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#learning #mind #never

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#shouting #true #true knowledge #where

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#hanged #rich #who #will #wishes

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#beyond #darkness #doubt #falsehood #light

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


— Leonardo da Vinci


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About Leonardo da Vinci

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Did you know about Leonardo da Vinci?

Hippolyte Taine wrote in 1866: "There may not be in the world an example of another genius so universal so incapable of fulfilment so full of yearning for the infinite so naturally refined so far ahead of his own century and the following centuries. Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. There are compositions for paintings studies of details and drapery studies of faces and emotions of animals babies dissections plant studies rock formations whirlpools war machines helicopters and architecture.

He conceptualised a helicopter a tank concentrated solar power a calculator and the double hull and he outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. Among his works the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait and The Last Supper the most reproduced religious painting of all time with their fame approached only by Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam.

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