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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Education

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Leadership, Spiritual
"The Recognitions". Book by William Gaddis, "Anselm", p. 457, 1955.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Leonardo da Vinci
Beauty, Simple, Stuff

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

Leonardo da Vinci
Learning, Intelligent, Creative

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

Leonardo da Vinci
Experience, Guides
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.24, eKitap Projesi

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

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Art, Class

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Spiritual, Art
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.444, GENERAL PRESS

It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

Leonardo da Vinci
Believe, Enough

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

Leonardo da Vinci
Mirrors, Stills

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Leonardo da Vinci
Art, Creative, Immortal

Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!

Leonardo da Vinci
Thinking, Brain, Use

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Winning, Want, Losing

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Evil
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.97, eKitap Projesi

When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

Leonardo da Vinci
Hands, Fortune, Behinds
Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

Leonardo da Vinci
Desire, Poor

Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

Leonardo da Vinci
Stars, Storm, Courses

average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

Leonardo da Vinci
Moving, Thinking, Average

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

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

Leonardo da Vinci
Jobs, Coal, Stuck

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Leonardo da Vinci
Life Changing, Epic, Power

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

Leonardo da Vinci
Judgement, Deceiving
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.969, Delphi Classics

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

Leonardo da Vinci
Perfection, Details

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

Leonardo da Vinci
Basketball, Yield, Effort
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci
True Friend, Knowledge, Betrayed

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.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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