Leonardo da Vinci vs. Donald Trump
Read 20 entries attributed to Leonardo da Vinci alongside 20 attributed to Donald Trump. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Leonardo da Vinci alongside 20 attributed to Donald Trump. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: religion, life, philosophy, knowledge. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, entry #119: "Up Lake Como towards Germany is the Chavenna Valley where the River Mera") enters the lake. Here are barren and very high mountains with large rocks ... In these mountains the wat…"
Attributed to Donald Trump, entry #52334: "These are people that are outside the country, so we're really not talking about the Constitution. And it's not about religion. This is about safety. This has nothing to do with r…"
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Leonardo da Vinci
1452 – 1519
Leonardo da Vinci (1452) was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance — painter, scientist, engineer, mathematician, and writer.
"Up Lake Como towards Germany is the Chavenna Valley where the River Mera") enters the lake. Here are barren and very high mountains with large rocks ... In t…"
#Ethics"Su per lago di Como di ver Lamagnia (Alemagna, cioè Germania) è valle di Ciavenna dove la Mera fiume mette in esso lago. Qui si truova montagni sterili e alt…"
#Science"Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so …"
#Science"3 miglia più in là si trova li edifici della vena del rame e dello argento, presso una terra detta Pra Santo Petro e vene di ferro e cose fantastiche. ( Anci…"
#Science"Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or…"
#Aesthetics"The painter strives and competes with nature...There is nothing in all nature without its reason. If you know the reason, you do not need the experience..."
#Epistemology"3 miles further on are the buildings of the vein of copper and silver, near a land called Prato San Pietro and veins of iron and fantastic things. (paper F.573)"
#Science"Fa vini potenti e assai, … e ‘l vino vale el più uno soldo il boccale e la libbra della vitella un soldo e ‘l sale 10 dinari, e ‘l simile il burro, ed è la l…"
#Science"truovasi di miglio i(n) miglio bone osteriee. ( Ancient Italian)"
#Science"As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long."
#Human Nature"Look at the grace and sweetness of men and women in the street..."
#Science"Thou, O God, sellest us all benefits, at the cost of our toil...."
#Religion"He makes powerful and very strong wines, … and the wine is worth more than a penny per jug and the pound of veal a penny and the salt 10 denarii, and so is t…"
#Science"All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rush…"
#life"Seeing that I can find no subject specially useful or pleasing — since the men who have come before me have taken for their own every useful or necessary the…"
#philosophy"Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man."
#war"To enjoy—to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason."
#love"The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection."
#art"Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it."
#life"Oh! human stupidity, do you not perceive that, though you have been with yourself all your life, you are not yet aware of the thing you possess most of, that…"
#knowledgeDonald Trump
1945
Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.
"These are people that are outside the country, so we're really not talking about the Constitution. And it's not about religion. This is about safety. This ha…"
#religion"We're not entering a dark winter, we are entering the final turn and the light at the end of the tunnel"
#success"People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?"
#knowledge"When a Secretary of State illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see her crime, puts our country at…"
#knowledge"In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat. It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't b…"
#justice"No American should be forced to choose between the dictates of the federal government and the tenets of their faith."
#hope"Well, er, it wasn't, er, it wasn't very stupid, I can tell you that."
#language"I think I am actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand."
#knowledge"I never understood wind. I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany m…"
#life"It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy."
#time"Look, when I go to rallies, they turn around, they start screaming at CNN. They want to throw their placards at CNN. You know. I think you would do much bett…"
#philosophy"We've let our rivals and challengers think they can get away with anything, and they do... If President Obama's goal had been to weaken America, he could not…"
#mind"Mike Flynn is a fine person, and I asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it. He is a man who there was a certain amount of information given to Vic…"
#friendship"I love all people, rich or poor, but in those particular positions I just don't want a poor person."
#money"They're trying to scare everybody, from meetings, cancel the meetings, close the schools—you know, destroy the country. And that's okay, as long as we can wi…"
#knowledge"All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."
#humor"Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are …"
#friendship"We're thinking about building the wall as a solar wall, so it creates energy, and pays for itself. And this way Mexico will have to pay much less money, and …"
#mind"My goal is always again to bring people together. But if I'm forced to fight for something I really care about, I will never, ever back down and our country …"
#friendship"The national debt has doubled. And you know the bad part about that? You think if the national debt has doubled, our infrastructure would be great, our count…"
#knowledge