Leonardo da Vinci Quote: Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched...

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

eyes blinding us wretched ignorance

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We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life