Leonardo Da Vinci

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

— 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

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

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

— Leonardo Da Vinci

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

— Leonardo Da Vinci

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

— Leonardo Da Vinci

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

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

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

— Leonardo Da Vinci

[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Our life is made by the death of others.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

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

— Leonardo Da Vinci

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

And Wisdom be the Daughter of Experience

— Leonardo Da Vinci

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.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

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.

— 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

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

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

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