Leonardo da Vinci

Engineering Italian 1452 – 1519 238 quotes

Ultimate Renaissance polymath, artist-engineer-scientist

Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

The eye sees in the object what it brings in itself to see.

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The true artist is one who is not afraid to fail.

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The mind has no limits, except those we acknowledge.

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The earth is not the center of the universe.

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The greatest good is to be free from fear.

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The human body is a machine, but a divine one.

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The love of money is the root of all evil.

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The greatest pleasure is to do what people say you cannot do.

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The mind is the source of all good and evil.

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The earth is a star.

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The most beautiful thing in the world is the world itself.

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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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The greatest happiness is to be content with what you have.

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The human intellect is a divine thing.

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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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

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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

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