Leonardo Da Vinci on Gratitude Quotes

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

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

"Every obstacle yields to stern resolve."

"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."

"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."

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

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

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

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

"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."

"Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood."

"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."

"Nature never breaks her own laws."

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

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

"The depth of the love of any thing is the fruit of our knowledge of it."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

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

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

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

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

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

"Blame is safer than praise."

"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."

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