Leonardo da Vinci Quotes - Page 4

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

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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

Eternal, Mistress, Law

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

Err, Judgments, Caused

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

Desires, Remain, Spirit

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

Which, Visible, Weight

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

Mind, Itself, Falls

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting. Leonardo da Vinci

Might, Them, Remains

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. Leonardo da Vinci

Argument, Using, His

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

Expecting, Err, Her

I have wasted my hours. Leonardo da Vinci

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

Chief, Superior, Truth

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

Eye, Appear, Smaller

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation. Leonardo da Vinci

Stands, Reason, Senses

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind. Leonardo da Vinci

Which, Enabling, Prove

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