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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
«Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.»
«No member needs so great a number of muscles as the tongue; this exceeds all the rest in the number of its movements»
«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.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Experience,
Nature,
Reason
| Keywords:
commence, commenced, commences, investigate, investigated, investigates, investigating, proceed, with reason
«The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.»
«I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men»
«Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Authority,
Memory
| Keywords:
discussion, relies, uses
«Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.»