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Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.

Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.

Leonardo da Vinci
Wells, Asks
Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1190, Library of Alexandria

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Passion

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

Leonardo da Vinci
Dumb, May, Painting
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.226, GENERAL PRESS

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Art, Knowledge, Color

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Intelligent, Needs
Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1146, Library of Alexandria

Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

Leonardo da Vinci
Hands, Rivers, Lasts

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

Leonardo da Vinci
Work, Distance, Taken

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

Leonardo da Vinci
Loneliness, Solitude, Half
Leonardo Da Vinci (2013). “Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master”, p.516, Hachette UK

Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.

Leonardo da Vinci
Quilts, Lying, Renown

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

Leonardo da Vinci
Order, Records, Might
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.

Leonardo da Vinci
Eye, Soul, Body
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.106, OUP Oxford

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligent, Arise
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.262, OUP Oxford

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

Leonardo da Vinci
Growth, Earth, Flesh
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.395, GENERAL PRESS

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

Leonardo da Vinci
Kings, Animal, Men

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

Leonardo da Vinci
Confusion, Ontology, Doe

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

Leonardo da Vinci
Vision, Littles, Merit
Leonardo (da Vinci), Edward McCurdy (1939). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

All our knowledge originates in opinion.

Leonardo da Vinci
Opinion
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1152, Delphi Classics

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

Leonardo da Vinci
Time, Learning, Science

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

Leonardo da Vinci
Art, Attitude, Men
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1998). “Leonardo Da Vinci: 1452-1519”, Konemann

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligent, Fire, Darkness
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

Leonardo da Vinci
Perception, Earth, Reason
Leonardo (da Vinci), Edward McCurdy (1939). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Intelligent, Doe
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.20, eKitap Projesi

Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

Leonardo da Vinci
Iron, Water, Mind
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.19, eKitap Projesi

The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Bird, Weight, Earth
Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nature, Intelligent, Causes
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.8, OUP Oxford

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