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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian
Artist
Born:
Apr 15
,
1452
Does
Knowledge
Mind
Nature
Will
Work
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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
Love
Smile
Death
Strength
Business
Heart
Reflection
Will
Trouble
Minds
Approve
Those
Distress
Pursue
Firm
Unto
Principles
Conduct
Brave
Tis
Little
Little Minds
Who
Grow
Whose
Shrink
Conscience
Gather
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci
Death
Learning
Thought
Live
How
Been
Die
While
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Learning
Mind
Never
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci
Silence
Nothing
Authority
Much
Strengthens
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci
Joy
Understanding
Pleasure
Noblest
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Leonardo da Vinci
People
Brainy
Three
Those
See
Classes
Who
Shown
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da Vinci
Honor
Virtue
Memorial Day
Who
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
Work
Art
Spirit
Does
Hand
Where
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci
Art
Finished
Abandoned
Only
Never
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci
Knowledge
True
True Knowledge
Where
Shouting
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
Nature
Knowledge
Cause
Invention
Own
Logic
Laws
True
She
True Knowledge
Without
Nor
Source
Effect
Her
Necessity
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Water
Mind
Purity
Does
Loses
Iron
Stagnation
Inaction
Sap
Vigor
Even
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
Leonardo da Vinci
Enough
Willing
Must
Knowing
Doing
Been
Impressed
Being
Urgency
Apply
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci
Time
Will
Long
Enough
Stays
Anyone
Use
Who
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo da Vinci
Work
Art
Engineering
Foot
Masterpiece
Human
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci
Pet
Smallest
Masterpiece
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Leonardo da Vinci
Master
Pupil
Does
Surpass
His
Poor
Who
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci
Hope
Marriage
Out
Bag
Putting
Like
Snakes
Hand
Your
Pulling
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci
Ignorance
Open Your Eyes
Eyes
Wretched
Open
Mislead
Mortals
Blinding
Does
Us
Your
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligence
Passion
Out
Drives
Intellectual
Sensuality
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
Time
You
Water
First
Touch
Rivers
Passed
Which
Present
Present Time
Last
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci
Knowledge
Our
Perceptions
Origins
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
Leonardo da Vinci
Lie
Darkness
Light
Increased
Diminished
Detail
Shadow
Could
Between
Understood
Beginnings
Infinitely
May
Ends
Form
Which
Forms
Bodies
Means
Display
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci
Work
God
Quality
Offended
Reach
Because
Mankind
Should
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.
Leonardo da Vinci
Darkness
Light
Rest
Painting
Distance
Sight
Solidity
Colour
Concerned
Attributes
Motion
Form
Which
Position
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.
Leonardo da Vinci
Practice
Rudder
Cast
Never
He
Like
Knows
Without
Sailor
Ship
May
Where
Loves
Boards
Theory
Who
Compass
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