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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian: [leoˈnardo di ˌsɛr ˈpjɛːro da (v)ˈvintʃi] ( listen); 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank, he epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal.

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Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

Iron, Water, Mind, Putrefies, Freezes

The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.

Destroyed, Made, Medici

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Education, Inspirational, Poor, Pupil, Surpass, Teacher

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

Away, Come, Distance, Surer, Taken, Work

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Dream, Dreams, Eye, Inspirational, Life, Thing

Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.

Country, Horror, Light, Men, Night

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

Painting, Perspective, Rein, Rudder, Rudders

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

Horse, Painting, Perspective, Rudder, Ships

Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.

Be Prepared, Make, Mistake, Mistakes, Prepared, Tests

I am never weary of being useful. . . In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

Enough, Serving Others, Sufficient, Tire

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

Discussion, Invoke, Invokes, Memories, Memory, Using

The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.

Eye, Vision, Whole, World

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Discipline, Dominion, Establish, Willpower

In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therefore you should make the building. . . wall which is more distant less defined and bluer. . . five times as far away, make five times as blue.

Blue, Building, Eye, Mountains, Uniform, Wall

Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else.

Becomes, Everything, Proceeds, Turned

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Life, Produce, Rankest, Soil, Uncultivated, Weed

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

Apart, Earth, Perception, Reason

People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing

Aries, Nothing, People, Talent

If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.

Clothes, Hope, Hurt, Increases, Let, Patience

Knowledge. . . shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.

Knowledge, Bears, Witness, Clarion, Creator

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