Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

"If you are alone, you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion, you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct, and if you have more than one companion, you will fall more deeply into the same plight."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- 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

"We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"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

"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

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose"

- Leonardo da Vinci

"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

"God sells us all things at the price of labor."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Victory favors the prepared mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Art is never finished, only abandoned."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"The painter has the universe in his mind and hands."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Human 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 Vinci

"The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

""Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.""

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"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

"Contemplation is vital, thinking is vital; he who thinks little errs much."

- 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-used brings happy death."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"A well-spent day brings happy sleep."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"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

"Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Time stays long enough for those who use it."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself…the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. …And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Art is never finished, only abandoned"

- Leonardo da Vinci

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"I love those who can smile in trouble."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"I love those who can smile in trouble..."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Water is the driving force in nature."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Water is the driver of nature."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"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

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Who sows virtue reaps honor."

- Leonardo da Vinci