Leonardo Da Vinci on Gratitude Quotes

"The knowledge of all things is possible."

"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."

"Every obstacle yields to stern resolve."

"The mind that is often exercised grows, and it is a thing that never grows old."

"Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public."

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

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

"Blame is safer than praise."

"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."

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

"Art is never finished, only abandoned."

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity."

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

"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year."

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

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

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

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

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

"The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the central sense can most completely and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature."

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

"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."

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

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"Life well spent is long."

"Truth was at all times the sole daughter of time."

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

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

"Nature never breaks her own laws."

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

"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."

"Every action of nature is done in the shortest way possible."