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Letter "L" » Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
«The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.»
«Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.»
«You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand»
«Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.»
«Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
common sense, Judges, senses
«Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen»
«Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
err, errs, expecting, judgments
«The most praiseworthy form of painting is one that most resembles what it imitates.»
«The desire to know is natural to good men.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Desire,
Mankind
| Keywords:
desire to know, natural
«I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
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countryside, immediately, lasts, lightning, like thunder, roamed, roaming, roams, searching, The Eye, thunder, thundered, thundering, visible
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