I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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- I’m not offended until you think I’m offended. – Criss Jami
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- It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own. – Leonardo da Vinci
- God sells us all things at the price of labor. – Leonardo da Vinci
- Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame. – Leonardo da Vinci
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- The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. – Leonardo da Vinci
- One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. – Leonardo da Vinci
- The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. – Leonardo da Vinci
- 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. – Leonardo da Vinci
- What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art – Leonardo da Vinci
- I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils – Leonardo da Vinci
- The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. – Leonardo da Vinci
- Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting – Leonardo da Vinci
- Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. – Leonardo da Vinci
- art is never finished, only abandoned – Leonardo da Vinci
- Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death – Leonardo da Vinci
- Water is the driving force in nature. – Leonardo da Vinci
- As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. – Leonardo da Vinci
- The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. – Leonardo da Vinci
- Learning never exhausts the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci
- The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark. – Leonardo da Vinci
- Fine gold is recognized when it is tested. – Leonardo da Vinci
- No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger. – Leonardo da Vinci
- Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it. – Leonardo da Vinci
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- Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. – Leonardo da Vinci
- poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. – Leonardo da Vinci
- He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year. – Leonardo da Vinci
- The smallest feline is a masterpiece. – Leonardo da Vinci
- We may always enslave ourselves to mankind if we do not clearly differentiate between showing respect to mankind from pleasing mankind – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person’s character. – Orrin Woodward
- Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Rejecting God’s truth b/c of mankind’s hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind’s incompetence. – Orrin Woodward
- Christmas is God saving mankind from the folly of mankind’s grandiose sense of greatness. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- The quality of our lives lives, depends on the quality of our thoughts. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Like soil, the quality of your mind decides the quality and quantity of ideas your mind can produce. – Mensah Oteh
- The difference in the quality of life between people can be found in the quality of the questions they ask themselves – Mensah Oteh
- Quality of life depends on quality and quantity of happiness. – Debasish Mridha
- The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. – Douglas Adams