Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
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Leonardo da Vinci
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About Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. Leonardo is widely regarded as a genius who epitomised the Renaissance…
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The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
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.
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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 consci…
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 consci…
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
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.
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.
Water is the driving force of all nature.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
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 consci…
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Life well spent is long.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Learning never exhausts the mind.