Leonardo Da Vinci on Wisdom Quotes

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

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

"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."

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

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

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."

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

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

"Blame is safer than praise."

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

"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer."

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

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

"In order to see the defects of your work, you must go far away from it."

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

"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."

"Variety of studies is the cause of the refreshment of the mind."

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

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"Shun those studies in which the result dies with the worker."

"Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom."

"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."

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

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