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“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy

“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

Variant: Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

“Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variant: Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

“I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
Variant: While I thought I have been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

“It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variant: It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

No published occurrence of such an attribution has yet been located prior to one in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre — Band 3 http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2411/pg2411.html by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Variant: Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.