Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IV Perspective of Disappearance
Source: Mort
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IV Perspective of Disappearance
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“There is beauty in compassion, but one must learn wisdom too.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: The Final Empire
Koichi Tohei (1920–2011) Japanese aikidoka
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Ki Sayings (2003)
Context: You must not think of what you learned as belonging to you. Your learning was only possible because of the people who taught you. If you forget this, before you know it you fall under the illusion that you are the only one who can do it, or the only one who understands. This is called being full of yourself. It is wrong to think, ‘I am strong’, because this strength is nothing but weakness turned inside out. You must think how to act within universal principles.
“Cold and sharp in the edges, full of fire and warm under the surface”
Aristotle Onassis (1906–1975) Greek shipping magnate
Quoted in Peter Evans, Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, (1978) p. 299
Comparing Jackie Kennedy to a diamond
“Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book I, Ch. 14
Attributed
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1860s, Allow the humblest man an equal chance (1860)