Leonardo Da Vinci on Happiness Quotes

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

"He who does not punish evil commands it to be done."

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

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

"Life well spent is long."

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

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

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

"Every action needs to be prompted by a motive."

"Blame is safer than praise."

"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast."

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

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

"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."

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

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge."

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

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

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

"Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature."

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

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."

"Truth was the only daughter of Time."

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

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

"Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments."

"Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs."

"God sells us all things at the price of labor."

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."

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

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."