“Ask advice of him who governs himself well.”
Leonardo da Vinci
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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“A man is worthy of praise or blame solely on account of those actions which lie within his power to do or not to do.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“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.”
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“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better goverment.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“Never underestimate the man who overestimates himself.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source