Quotes By Leonardo Da Vinci

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

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

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

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.

Our life is made by the death of others.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

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.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

I have wasted my hours.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.