Leonardo Da Vinci on Thinking Quotes

"Obstacles do not bend me. Every endeavor is made through effort."

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

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

"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."

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

"The knowledge of all things is possible."

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

"Realize that everything connects to everything else."

"The mind that is always used to work is more easily moved to work."

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

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"

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

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

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

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers."

"In time and with water, everything changes."

"Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature."

"Though I may not, like them, quote authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy — on experience, the mistress of their Masters."

"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."

"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."

"Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire spoils the memory."

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

"Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor."

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

"Blame is safer than praise."

"Truth was at all times the only daughter of Time."

"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."

"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 painter who draws merely by practice and eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every object set before it without being conscious of their existence."

"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."

"He who thinks little, errs much."

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."