Leonardo Da Vinci: Citáty v angličtine (page 6)

“Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.”

“Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?”

“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”

“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”

“The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”

“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”

“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.”

“The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.”

“As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.”

“The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.”

“Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude. Pharisees — that is to say, friars.”

“Human subtlety…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.”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”

“Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.”

“The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.”

“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.”

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep”