Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Science, knowledge of the things that are possible present and past; prescience, knowledge of the things which may come to pass.Leonardo da Vinci
Quotes to Explore
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
F. H. Bradley -
However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
Babasaheb -
Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
Earl Wilson -
Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.
Walt Mossberg -
I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
Karl Rove -
I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.
Malik Jackson
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden -
Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.
Ian Watson -
It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
Jackie Stewart -
I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.
Laura Trott -
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson -
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Carl Sandburg
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
Lane Kirkland -
Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
Saint Ignatius -
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner -
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow
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Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.
Anthony Daniels -
I'm a really nice guy when you meet me, and that surprises a lot of people. I'm not that eccentric in real life - and certainly not that disrespectful. In my own time, I like to just chill out with friends and not get in people's faces.
KSI -
Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
Finley Peter Dunne -
Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and one sister, should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think it can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked.
Bertrand Russell -
Science, knowledge of the things that are possible present and past; prescience, knowledge of the things which may come to pass.
Leonardo da Vinci