Leonardo da Vinci Quote: We see the most striking example of...

We see the most striking example of humility in the lamb which will submit to any animal; and when they are given for food to imprisoned lions they are as gentle to them as to their own mother, so that very often it has been seen that the lions forbear to kill them.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

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He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life

One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci - Of Fire