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Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.

Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.

Leonardo da Vinci
Knowledge, Bears, Witness
Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.242, Lulu.com

O time! swift devourer of all created things!

Leonardo da Vinci
Time
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1061, Delphi Classics

We ought not to desire the impossible.

Leonardo da Vinci
Desire, Impossible, Should
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.116, eKitap Projesi

It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.

Leonardo da Vinci
Evil, Lasts, Firsts
Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.181, Profile Books

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

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Bullying, Kids
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.987, Delphi Classics

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

Leonardo da Vinci
Attitude, Men, Two

To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

Leonardo da Vinci
Sake, Reason, Enjoy
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.

Leonardo da Vinci
Life, Sensual, Firsts
"The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Lovers
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1980). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Oxford University Press, USA

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Honor, Virtue

And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Ideas, Mind

My body is not a tomb for animals.

Leonardo da Vinci
Animal, Body, Animal Rights

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Mind, Tails
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.

Leonardo da Vinci
Eye, Needs, Invisible

O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.

Leonardo da Vinci
Powerful, Mind, Action

If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

Leonardo da Vinci
Distance, Long, Water

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Leonardo da Vinci
Life, Weed, Soil

The painter strives and competes with nature.

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

Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Miracle, Wish

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Iron, Acting
"The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.

Leonardo da Vinci
Truth, Humble, Light
Leonardo da Vinci (2017). “Thoughts on art and life”, p.18, Youcanprint

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

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

The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.

Leonardo da Vinci
Lying, Eye, Dark
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.459, GENERAL PRESS

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

Leonardo da Vinci
Eye, Thorough Knowledge, Drawing
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.42, GENERAL PRESS

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligent, Light, Darkness
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.384, Delphi Classics

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