Quotes By Leonardo Da Vinci

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

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

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

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.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

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.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

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.

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.

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.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

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.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

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.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?