1519 Quotes by Italian authors

Italian sayings carry the warmth of a kitchen and the gravity of a cathedral, braiding tenderness with irony. Love, beauty, and loyalty sit beside hunger, time, and fate; saints and skeptics share the same bench. From Dante to De André, voices favor clarity over ornament, quick wit over sermon, turning daily life into distilled wisdom. Coastal winds and factory smoke, dialect and high lyric, a moral compass that sways yet does not snap, and an aftertaste, espresso-bitter, sunlit, define their music.

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"Power wears out those who don't have it"

Giulio Andreotti, Politician

Giulio Andreotti

"We do not remember days, we remember moments"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

Cesare Pavese

"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour"

Giotto di Bondone, Artist

Giotto di Bondone

"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines"

Enzo Ferrari, Designer

Enzo Ferrari

"Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

Loris Malaguzzi

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

Leonardo da Vinci

"Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level"

Enrico Fermi, Physicist

Enrico Fermi

"A dimple on the chin, the devil within"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

Pope Paul VI

"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"At the heart of the Reggio Emilia approach is the belief that children are full of potential, competent, and capable of constructing their own learning"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

Loris Malaguzzi

"Politics have no relation to morals"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"The wider the range of possibilities we offer children, the more intense will be their motivations and the richer their experiences"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

Loris Malaguzzi

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

Pope Paul VI

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"The environment should act as an aquarium which reflects the ideas, ethics, attitudes, and culture of the people who live in it"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

Loris Malaguzzi

"Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning"

Giotto di Bondone, Artist

Giotto di Bondone

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

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

Leonardo da Vinci

"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

Leonardo da Vinci

"Beware of the person of one book"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

Pope Paul VI

"Man has no greater enemy than himself"

Petrarch, Poet

Petrarch

"A different language is a different vision of life"

Federico Fellini, Director

Federico Fellini

"See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little"

Pope John XXIII, Clergyman

"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

Leonardo da Vinci

"Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

Loris Malaguzzi

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"Who sows virtue reaps honor"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

Leonardo da Vinci

"The things that we love tell us what we are"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars"

Giotto di Bondone, Artist

Giotto di Bondone

"Nature is the art of God"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"He listens well who takes notes"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"I want to be spontaneous like a wild animal"

Giovanni Morassutti, Actor

Giovanni Morassutti

"He conquers who endures"

Aulus Persius Flaccus, Poet

"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do"

Gian Carlo Menotti, Composer

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