Leonardo Da Vinci on Happiness Quotes

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

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

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

"Truth was the only daughter of Time."

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."

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

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge."

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

"Life well spent is long."

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

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"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."

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

"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."

"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."

"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."

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

"Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature."

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

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

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

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

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

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