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Argument & Debate
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Art
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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. Realise that everything connects to everything else.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Cats
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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Censorship
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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Common Sense
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Control
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Creativity
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The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Death
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Deception/Lying
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The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.
-Leonardo DaVinci, note book
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The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.
-Leonardo DaVinci, note book
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Desires
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When 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 DaVinci
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Excellence
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Experience
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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Fear
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Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Genius
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Humanity
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Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Laziness
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Life
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Our life is made by the death of others.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Mankind, Man
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Mind, the
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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 vigors of the mind.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Nature
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Although human subtlety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Patience
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Books by and about Leonardo DaVinci