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Leonardo da Vinci

Read through the most famous quotes from Leonardo da Vinci




As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.


— Leonardo da Vinci


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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.


— Leonardo da Vinci


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Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.


— Leonardo da Vinci


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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.


— Leonardo da Vinci


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Who sows virtue reaps honor.


— Leonardo da Vinci


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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.


— Leonardo da Vinci


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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.


— Leonardo da Vinci


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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!


— Leonardo da Vinci


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Water is the driving force of all nature.


— Leonardo da Vinci


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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.


— Leonardo da Vinci


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About Leonardo da Vinci

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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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