Leonardo Da Vinci on Wisdom Quotes

"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."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

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

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

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

"Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold."

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

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

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge."

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

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

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

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

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

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

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

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

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

"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."

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

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

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

"The knowledge of all things is possible."

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

"The truth of things is the food of all fine minds."

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

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

"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."

"The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the central sense can consider the infinite works of nature."

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

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

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

"Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses—especially learn how to see."