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The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

Leonardo da Vinci
Genius, Sometimes, Mindset

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Leonardo da Vinci
Karma, Wisdom, Realizing

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

Leonardo da Vinci
Love, Life, Adversity
"Da Vinci Notebooks".

Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.

Leonardo da Vinci
Education, Disappoint, Teaching And Education

Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.

Leonardo da Vinci
Return, Made, Manifestation
Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

Leonardo da Vinci
Emotional, World, Stills

I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.

Leonardo da Vinci
World, Want, Capture

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Leonardo da Vinci
Love, Motivational, Strength

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Law, Causes

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci
Motivational, Love Life, Iron

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

Leonardo da Vinci
Balance, Destruction
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.191, Univ of California Press

People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

Leonardo da Vinci
Being Strong, Character, People

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci
Patience, Mind, Vex
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1938). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Passion

life without love, is no life at all

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Passion

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Leonardo da Vinci
Friendship, Real, Intelligent
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.267, OUP Oxford

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

Leonardo da Vinci
Facts, Authority, Abandon

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

Leonardo da Vinci
Beautiful, Wisdom, Clever

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

Leonardo da Vinci
Disease, Cures, Advertising And Marketing

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

Leonardo da Vinci
Teacher, Wisest

All thoughts start from emotions.

Leonardo da Vinci
Emotion

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

Leonardo da Vinci
Love, Beautiful, Silence

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Education, Memories
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Time

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Wise
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.6, OUP Oxford

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