Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Joy, Pleasure, Understanding)
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Art, Work, Engineering)
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Men, Deception, Opinions)
"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Tongue)
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Simplicity, Sophistication)
"Our life is made by the death of others."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Death, Life)
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Authority, Nothing, Silence)
"Nature never breaks her own laws."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Nature, Laws)
"The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Dreams, Imagination, Eye)
"Life well spent is long."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Life)
"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Truth)
"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Time, Will)
"Water is the driving force of all nature."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Nature, Driving, Force, Water)
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Art, Work, Spirit)
"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Knowledge)
"Who sows virtue reaps honor."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Virtue, Honor)
"You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Censure, Praise)
"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."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Life, Pretty)
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Learning, Mind)
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Thought, Learning)
"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Common sense, Judges, Senses)
"Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Life, Fear, Courage)
"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Marriage, Hope)
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Knowledge, Perceptions)
"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Experience, Nature, Reason)
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Intelligence, Argument, Authority, Memory)
"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Art)
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Death, Life, Day, Sleep)
"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Mind)
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Ignorance, Open)
"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Experience, Power)
"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Earth, Eyes, Will)
"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Change, Mind)
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Inaction, Mind, Purity, Water)
"A well-spent day brings happy sleep."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Day, Sleep)
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Beginning, End)
"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Truth, Darkness, Doubt, Falsehood, Light)
"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
(Related: People, Accomplishment, Attention)
"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
(Related: May, Practice, Theory)
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Time, First, Present, Rivers, Water)
"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Business, Death, Love, Heart, Strength, Conscience, Principles, Reflection, Smile, Trouble, Will)
"I have wasted my hours."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Work, Quality, God, Mankind)
"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
(Related: Being)
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Nature, Invention, Inventions, Nothing, Will)
"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Day, Will, Wishes)