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" The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence. "

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" For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. "

" Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. "

" The natural desire of good men is knowledge. "

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" Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. "

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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. "

" I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. "

" All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. "

" I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly. "

" Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest. "

" It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. "

" The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. "

" All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part. "

" Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. "

" Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. "

" Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. "

" In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. "

" While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. "

" Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. "

" Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? "

" The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances. "

" Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. "

" To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another. "

" 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. "

" Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others. "

" Who sows virtue reaps honor. "