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“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

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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

“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

“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

“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“Der Augenblick ist zeitlos.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“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

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

“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

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