Quotes By Leonardo Da Vinci

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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.

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.

Life well spent is long.

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

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

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

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

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

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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

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.

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.

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.

Our life is made by the death of others.

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

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

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

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.