The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.Leonardo da Vinci
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
Artist and inventor · 1452 – 1519
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance painter, engineer and anatomist whose notebooks reveal an insatiable curiosity about nature and art. He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and filled thousands of pages with studies, inventions and observations.
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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
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.Leonardo da Vinci
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
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci