1. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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2. “Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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3. “Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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4. “Time stays long enough for those who use it.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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5. “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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7. “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

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8. “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

9. “The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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10. “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

11. “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

12. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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13. “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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14. “The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

15. “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

16. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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17. “It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

18. “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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19. “Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

20. “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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21. “The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

22. “Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

24. “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

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25. “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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26. “Water is the driving force of all nature.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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27. “He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

28. “I love those who can smile in trouble...”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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29. “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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30. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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31. “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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32. “The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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33. “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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34. “Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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35. “Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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36. “As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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37. “I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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38. “Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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39. “The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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40. “Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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41. “Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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42. “God sells us all things at the price of labor.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

43. “The knowledge of all things is possible.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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44. “Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

45. “As you cannot do what you want, want what you can do.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

46. “The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

47. “All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

48. “The moment is timeless.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

49. “While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

50. “My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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