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He who is fixed to a star
does not change his mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes
in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push,
except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- Leonardo da Vinci
He who loves practice without theory
is like the sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and compass
and never knows where he may cast.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams
than the imagination when awake?
- Leonardo da Vinci
I love those who can smile in trouble,
who can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection.
- Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Common Sense is that which judges
the things given to it by other senses.
- Leonardo da Vinci
While I thought that I was learning how to live,
I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo da Vinci
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo da Vinci
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Learning never exhausts the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Experience does not err.
Only your judgments err by expecting from her
what is not in her power.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Human subtlety will never devise an invention
more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature,
because in her inventions nothing is lacking,
and nothing is superfluous.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
Oh Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- Leonardo da Vinci
Where the spirit does not work with the hand,
there is no art.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The truth of things is the chief nutriment
of superior intellects.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life well spent is long.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The poet ranks far below the painter
in the representation of visible things,
and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Our life is made by the death of others.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience
it is necessary for us to do the opposite,
that is to commence with experience
and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Martyrs cannot be silenced.
- the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
Follow your own star.
- Anonymous
Give somebody a gold star - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hitch your wagon to a star.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a rock star, I have two instincts,
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys
on a minor planet of a very average star.
But we can understand the Universe.
That makes us something very special.
- Stephen Hawking
Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)
I follow my own star and my own inner compass.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Humans make illogical decisions.
- Spock (character in Star Trek movies and TV shows)
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Let children walk with Nature,
let them see the beautiful blendings
and communions of death and life,
their joyous inseparable unity,
as taught in woods and meadows,
plains and mountains and streams
of our blessed star,
and they will learn that death
is stingless indeed,
and as beautiful as life.
- John Muir
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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