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Leonardo da Vinci: A Life From Beginning to End QUOTES

1 " Learning never exhausts the mind. "

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2 " I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. "

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3 " I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die. "

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4 " Leonardo believed that sight was the most significant sense of all and that one’s eyes were the most important. "

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5 " piety; "

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6 " Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else. "

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7 " I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die, "

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8 " Adoration "

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9 " Leonardo is credited with saying, “you have no dominion greater or lesser than that over yourself.” No words could be truer. He lived this motto to the fullest, ever learning, ever searching, never "

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10 " avid "

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11 " devour "

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12 " stunning "

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13 " areas, and brilliantly, too. Leonardo is known as one of the greatest painters who ever lived, and many argue he was the greatest artist ever. However, his genius went far beyond the easel and his paintbrushes. His mind could conceive of almost anything, from a beautiful representation of Heaven to graphical illustrations of the human body in a time when there were no such things as CAT scans or x-rays. Leonardo’s lifetime was spent observing and doing so in many different venues. His notebooks were filled with examples of what it means to be human. He looked at life from numerous perspectives and recorded all he saw. From light and shade to perspective and visual perception, from botany and landscape to physical sciences and astronomy, from architecture and planning to sculpture and experiments, from inventing to philosophy, there was nothing that didn’t touch Leonardo da Vinci. "

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14 " ecstatic "

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15 " sheen "

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16 " when he was just 21 years old because he wanted to learn all he could about anatomy and "

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17 " eroticism, "

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18 " You can readily see the contrast in style between Michelangelo’s statues of David and also of St. Matthew. "

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19 " such humble beginnings, where in his time his life would have been given no credence to be anything more than an illegitimate son, Leonardo da Vinci went on to astound them all. And he astounds us still, far away into the twenty-first century. "

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20 " have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not "

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