Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge."

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

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

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."

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

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

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."

"Art is never finished, only abandoned."

"Nature never breaks her own laws."

"He who thinks little, errs much."

"Water is the driving force of all nature."

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

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

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."

"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."

"Realize that everything connects to everything else."

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."

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

"Life well spent is long."

"Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death."

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold."

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

"He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss."

"A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves."

"Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences, because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics."

"Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not his intellect but his memory."

"Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose."

"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."