Quotes By Leonardo Da Vinci

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

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.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

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.

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

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

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

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.

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

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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