Leonardo da Vinci

Puzzles

• Study without ___ spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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• I take no more notice of the ___ that comes out of the mouths of critics than of the ___ expelled from their backsides.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Leonardo da Vinci?

  • → He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
  • → There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
  • → Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
  • → Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.

  • → Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.
  • → My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
  • → Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
  • → The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.

  • → There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
  • → Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
  • → Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
  • → He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Which one?

  • → A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
  • → Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
  • → We are rarely proud when we are alone.
  • → As dreams are the fancies of those that sleep, so fancies are but the dreams of those awake.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Leonardo da Vinci?

  • → If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
  • → Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
  • → Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
  • → It is a false principle, that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Leonardo da Vinci?

  • → Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
  • → The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.
  • → Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
  • → A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.

  • → As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
  • → There are three things that are extremely hard: steel, a diamond and to know oneself.
  • → Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
  • → Science is but an image of the truth.
  
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