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Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

Leonardo Da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, scientist, mathematician, musician and writer. He is considered to be one of the greatest artist and thinkers of all time and is most known for his painting of the Mona Lisa which sits at the Louvre in Paris. Get inspired by the genius of Leonardo Da Vinci with these quotes.

Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

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Simplicity

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.2 points

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Life

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.2 points

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Success

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.2 points

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Doing

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.2 points

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Painting and poetry

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.0 points

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Inaction

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.0 points

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Nature

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.0 points

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Knowledge

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.0 points

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People

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.0 points

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Power and Self

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.0 points

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Learning

Learning never exhausts the mind.0 points

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Silence

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.0 points

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Spirit

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.0 points

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Time

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.0 points

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Truth

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.0 points

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Deception

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.0 points

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Nature

Nature never breaks her own laws.0 points

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Art

Art is never finished, only abandoned.0 points

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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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.

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  • axileon Nov 19, 2008 @ 10:15 pm | delete
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  • Sheona Oct 1, 2008 @ 11:59 am | delete
    Nice perspetive on the great master...I never knew he had said so much. Thanks:)
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