Leonardo da Vinci Says: “The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.”
Leonardo da Vinci Says: “The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.”
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Leonardo da Vinci Says: “Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.”
Leonardo da Vinci Says: “Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.”
Leonardo da Vinci Says: “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt”
Leonardo da Vinci Says: “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
Leonardo da Vinci Says: “Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.”
LLeonardo da Vinci Says: “Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.”
Leonardo da Vinci Says: “To discover the soul living in somebody’s body”
Leonardo da Vinci Says: “To discover the soul living in somebody’s body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it’s messy and disordered, so is the soul.”
Leonardo da Vinci Says: “When you look at a wall spotted with stains.”
Leonardo da Vinci Says: “When you look at a wall spotted with stains…you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and…
Leo Tolstoy Says: “People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “Thou shalt not kill’ does not apply to murder of one’s own kind only”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “‘Thou shalt not kill’ does not apply to murder of one’s own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.”