The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Primary source)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Jean Paul Richter, is a thematic anthology of Leonardo’s writings on art, science, anatomy, engineering, and philosophy—revealing the genius’s insights, observations, and inventions through his own reflective and analytical prose.
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“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.”
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“My God what would a man do with a woman like that except worship her?”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Those who will not be counselled, cannot be helped.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“If a man owns land, the land owns him.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary sourceIndividualism Responsibility Praise Action