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I wish to work miracles.

I wish to work miracles.

Leonardo da Vinci
Miracle, Wish, Action
Leonardo da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.119, Profile Books

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

Leonardo da Vinci
Water, Doe, Pot
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.32, Univ of California Press

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

Leonardo da Vinci
Art, Constraints, Art Life

For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

Leonardo da Vinci
Beautiful, White, Wish

Lust is the cause of generation.

Leonardo da Vinci
Lust, Generations, Causes
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.337, GENERAL PRESS

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.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nature, Artist, Opposites
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

When you are alone you are all your own.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Self Confidence

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

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Passion
Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1155, Library of Alexandria

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Education
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

Leonardo da Vinci
Real, Math, Computer

True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.

Leonardo da Vinci
Spring, Great Love, Littles

simplicity is the best sophistication

Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity, Sophistication

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci
Death, Sleep, Thinking

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Leonardo da Vinci
God, Work, Technology

I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

Leonardo da Vinci
Serving Others, Tire, Enough

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

Leonardo da Vinci
Hate, Two, Giving

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Two, Soul
Roger Whiting, Leonardo (da Vinci) (2006). “The Art of Leonardo Da Vinci”

Every man at three years old is half his height

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Years, Height
Irma A. Richter (ed.) 'Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' (World's Classics, 1952) p. 149

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

Leonardo da Vinci
Mother, Science, Errors
"Leonardo on Art and the Artist".

I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Doors, Ever After

The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Fall, Intelligent, Graves
Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1190, Library of Alexandria

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

Leonardo da Vinci
Answers, Strange Phenomena, Countryside

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Treasure, Riches
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nature, Genius, Masters

Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Distance, Dark, Rocks
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.514, GENERAL PRESS

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