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“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
― Aristotle

“How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.”
― Isaac Asimov, Roving Mind

“Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“Do nothing that is of no use”
― Musashi Miyamoto, Book of Five Rings

“The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi

“The ultimate aim of karate lies not in victory nor defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants ”
― Gichin Funakoshi

“The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“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

“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“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

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

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

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

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.”
― 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

“Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.”
― Leonardo DaVinci

“Der Augenblick ist zeitlos.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“He is a poor pupil who does not go beyond his master.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“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

“The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

“All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.”
― Leonardo da Vinci