Leonardo da Vinci
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2 quotes we’ve traced to Leonardo da Vinci
Not actually Leonardo da Vinci
Often misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci
Famous lines widely pinned on Leonardo da Vinci that we’ve traced to someone else.
“Everything is connected to everything else”
actually Barry Commoner
“I awoke, only to find that the rest of the world is still asleep”
actually Sigmund Freud
“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men”
actually Dmitri Merezhkovsky
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do”
actually Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else”
actually Tom Peters
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence”
actually Charles de Gaulle
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return”
actually John H. Secondari
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