For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...

Remember that happiness is a way of travel -- not a destination

Remember that happiness is a way of travel -- not a destination

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

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

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I have wasted my hours.

I have wasted my hours.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a...

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a...

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how...

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how...

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

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

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