Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
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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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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
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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.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Our life is made by the death of others.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
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…
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
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…
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.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.