“Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XXI Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes.
Source: The Great Gatsby
“Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XXI Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes.
“I wouldn't dream of intruding into a reserved matter.”
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
Principles and Priorities : Programme for Government (September 5, 2007)
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) German philosopher
Source: "Die Menschen können nicht ohne Hoffnung leben" (one of his last interviews), Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (February 11, 2002)
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
I 1 as translated in Giordano Bruno : His Life and Thought with annotated translation of his work On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1950) by Dorothea Waley Singer http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/bruno03.htm <br class="br">De immenso (1591)