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#1

“One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.”
― Leonardo DaVinci

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#2

“The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#3

“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

tags: knowing, urgency, willing

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#4

“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

tags: animal-rights, animals, murder, vegetarianism

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#5

“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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#6

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: learning

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#7

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#8

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: faith, wisdom

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#9

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art

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#10

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, creativity, leonardo-da-vinci

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#11

“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

tags: flight, flying, inspirational

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#12

“The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

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#13

“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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#14

“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#15

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#16

“Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#17

“He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#18

“My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#19

“While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than nature does, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#20

“As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: divided, division, kingdom, mind, study

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#21

“The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, painting

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#22

“We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#23

“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#24

“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

tags: vegetarianism

56 likes

#25

“He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#26

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: acquiescence, authority, complicity, dissent, protest, silence

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#27

“If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

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