Leonardo Da Vinci on Burnout Quotes

"He who fears to be deceived should be cautious of trusting."

"To remain at work will cause you to lose a power of judgment."

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

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

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

"In order to see the defects of your work, you must go far away from it."

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

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

"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."

"The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things."

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

"The painter who draws merely by practice and eye is like a mirror which copies everything placed in front of it."

"The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming; thus it is with time present."

"Life well spent is long."

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

"Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it."

"The mind that is always used will be worn out."

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

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

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

"Variety of studies is the cause of the refreshment of the mind."

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

"It is well that you should often leave off work and take a little relaxation, because when you come back to it you are a better judge."

"Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance."

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

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

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

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

"Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory."

"Where there is most feeling, there is also the greatest martyrdom."

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

"Nature never breaks her own laws."

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve."