Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Friday, April 25, 2014 – Leonardo da Vinci
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Friday, April 25, 2014 – Leonardo da Vinci
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
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“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”
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“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.”
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“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”
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“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
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“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.”
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“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
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“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
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“Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.”
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“The earth is not in the centre of the Sun’s orbit nor at the centre of the universe, but in the centre of its companion elements, and united with them. And any one standing on the moon, when it and the sun are both beneath us, would see this our earth and the element of water upon it just as we see the moon, and the earth would light it as it lights us.”
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“The motive power is the cause of all life.”
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“Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.”
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“The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”
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“He who thinks little, errs much.”
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“It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.”
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“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
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“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
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“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
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“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.”
Wikipedia: Leonardo da Vinci
