Leonardo da Vinci Quote: The acquisition of any knowledge is always...

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.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

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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.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life

Tell me if anything was ever done.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci - This was written in his notebooks in despair of so many of his projects that never were completed

Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life