Time For Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

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

"Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it." Leonardo da Vinci

"Who sows virtue reaps honor." Leonardo da Vinci

"Our life is made by the death of others." Leonardo da Vinci

"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." Leonardo da Vinci

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

"Art is never finished, only abandoned." Leonardo da Vinci

"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself." Leonardo da Vinci

"Learning never exhausts the mind." Leonardo da Vinci

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

Self-portrait in red chalk, circa 1512 to 1515

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ( April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, ) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.
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"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." Leonardo da Vinci

"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power." Leonardo da Vinci

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

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece." Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

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

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

"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year." Leonardo da Vinci

"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses." Leonardo da Vinci

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

"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." Leonardo da Vinci

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

"Life well spent is long." Leonardo da Vinci

"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have." Leonardo da Vinci

"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue." Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge." Leonardo da Vinci

"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active." Leonardo da Vinci

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

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci

"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." Leonardo da Vinci

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." Leonardo da Vinci

"Nature never breaks her own laws." Leonardo da Vinci

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

"I have wasted my hours." 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

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