The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. ”
– Leonardo da VinciTears come from the heart and not from the brain. ”
– Leonardo da VinciThere are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. ”
– Leonardo da VinciBeyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. ”
– Leonardo da VinciSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ”
– Leonardo da VinciMarriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. ”
– Leonardo da VinciIntellectual passion drives out sensuality. ”
– Leonardo da VinciEvery action needs to be prompted by a motive. ”
– Leonardo da VinciHe 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 VinciThe noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ”
– Leonardo da VinciLife 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 VinciPeople react to fear, not love – they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true. ”
– Leonardo da VinciTime stays long enough for anyone who will use it. ”
– Leonardo da VinciNothing strengthens authority so much as silence. ”
– Leonardo da VinciNecessity is the mistress and guide of nature. ”
– Leonardo da VinciWisdom is the daughter of experience. ”
– Leonardo da VinciTruth was the only daughter of Time. ”
– Leonardo da VinciHe who possesses most must be most afraid of loss. ”
– Leonardo da VinciWherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind. ”
– Leonardo da VinciIt is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last. ”
– Leonardo da VinciI 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 VinciAnyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. ”
– Leonardo da VinciArt is never finished, only abandoned. ”
– Leonardo da VinciWhere the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art ”
– Leonardo da VinciWhile I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? ”
– Leonardo da VinciIron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation … even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. ”
– Leonardo da VinciNature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. ”
– Leonardo da VinciIt’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. ”
– Leonardo da VinciLearning never exhausts the mind. ”
– Leonardo da VinciNature never breaks her own laws. ”
– Leonardo da VinciThe truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. ”
– Leonardo da VinciAll our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. ”
– Leonardo da VinciBlinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! ”
– Leonardo da VinciHe 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 VinciIn 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 VinciAs every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. ”
– Leonardo da VinciHuman subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. ”
– Leonardo da VinciAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. ”
– Leonardo da VinciLearning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment. ”
– Leonardo da VinciExperience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. ”
– Leonardo da VinciAlthough nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. ”
– Leonardo da VinciNature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.”
– Leonardo da VinciWhere there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. ”
– Leonardo da VinciFor, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all. ”
– Leonardo da VinciCommon Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. ”
– Leonardo da VinciJust as courage imperils life, fear protects it. ”
– Leonardo da VinciOur body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit. ”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Old Master Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

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