Leonardo Da Vinci: Citáty v angličtine (page 5)

“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”

“Time stays long enough for those who use it.”

“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.”

“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”

“Water is the driving force in nature.”

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”

“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”

“Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.”

“All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.”

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

“He who thinks little, errs much.”

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

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

“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

“My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.”

“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”

“Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.”

“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”