Leonardo da Vinci

Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.

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Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Who sows virtue reaps honour.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Who sows virtue reaps honour.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.