Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

Strength, Love, Business

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci

Long, Eyes, Once

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.
Leonardo da Vinci

Long, Happen, Attention

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci

Death, Learning, Live

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci

Life, Simple, Pretty

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity, Ultimate

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing, Silence, Authority

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci

Life, Happy, Sleep

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci

Men, Greatest, Deception

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Finished, Abandoned

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

Three, Classes, Shown

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

Enough, Knowing, Willing

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

Dreams, Why, Eye

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci

Life, Death, Happy

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci

Joy, Pleasure, Noblest

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci

Ignorance, Eyes, Open

Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Water, Force

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

Anyone, Memory, Authority

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci

Work, Art, Spirit

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci

Marriage, Hope, Hand

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo da Vinci

Work, Art, Human

Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci

Life, Long, Spent

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

Mind, Water, Inaction

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.
Leonardo da Vinci

May, Knows, Practice

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.
Leonardo da Vinci

Time, Last, Water

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Artist

Born: April 15, 1452

Died: May 2, 1519

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