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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes - Page 4

Italian - Artist April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it. Leonardo da Vinci

Time, Long, Enough

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

Representation, Things

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. Leonardo da Vinci

Truth, Superior, Things

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near. Leonardo da Vinci

Great, Eye, Distance

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth. Leonardo da Vinci

Man, Earth, Middle

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything. Leonardo da Vinci

Spirit, Body, Feel

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments. Leonardo da Vinci

Experience, Never, Only

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. Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Experience, Opposite

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. Leonardo da Vinci

Life, Courage, Fear

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading. Leonardo da Vinci

Love, Talent, Drawing

The Medici created and destroyed me. Leonardo da Vinci

Me, Created, Destroyed

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Law, Her

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense. Leonardo da Vinci

Body, Human Body, Human

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end. Leonardo da Vinci

Together, End, Resistance

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