WHO IS DA VINCI?
15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank,[1][2][3] he epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal.
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60 quotes by leonardo da vinci:
1.Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes
turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Water is the driving force of all nature.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
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.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
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.
Our life is made by the death of others.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
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