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Leonardo da Vinci

Read through the most famous quotes from 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


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


— Leonardo da Vinci


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He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.


— Leonardo da Vinci


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It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#easier #end #resist #than

Life well spent is long.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#long #spent #well

I have wasted my hours.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#i #wasted

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#ill #praise #understand #worse #you






About Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci Quotes




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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