The desire to know is natural to good men.

Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

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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...

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality

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...

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

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

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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...

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned...

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned...

Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself...

Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself...

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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 noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Our life is made by the death of others.

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

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

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.