“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.”
Time
“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
GodAll Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
Knowledge“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
Death“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
Men“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
God“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”
Life“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
Knowledge“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
Courage“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”
Truth“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.”
Experience“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.”
Intelligence“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
Dreams“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”
Nature“Our life is made by the death of others.”
Death“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
Men“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
Art“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”
Time“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 conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”
Business“Life well spent is long.”
Life“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
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