Quotes

Da Vinci

1.Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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

3.Art is never finished, only abandoned.

4. 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.

5. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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

7. The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

8. Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

9. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

10. 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.

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

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

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

14. It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

15. There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

16. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

17. The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

18. Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

19. Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

20. 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.

21. He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

22. The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

23. You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

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

25. 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.

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

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

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

29. Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

30. Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

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

Leonardo Da Vinci said “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” just before dying.