Mind As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. - Leonardo da Vinci
Pretty Life Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. - Leonardo da Vinci
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. - Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligence Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. - Leonardo da Vinci
While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it. - Maimonides
Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact. - Andrew Coyle Bradley