Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
-Leonardo da Vinci in Death quotes.

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
-Leonardo da Vinci in Actions quotes.

"Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art."
-Leonardo da Vinci in Art quotes.

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"Marriage: putting one's hand into a bag of snakes on the chance of drawing out an eel."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."
-Leonardo da Vinci in Patience quotes.

"Those who become enamored of practices without science are like sailors who go aboard ship without a rudder and compass, for they are never certain where they will land."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."
-Leonardo da Vinci in Time quotes.

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"Once you have flown, your eyes will ever gaze skyward. For once you have been there ... There you will go again!"
-Leonardo da Vinci

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

"Intellectual passion dries out sensuality."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see."
-Leonardo da Vinci