Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

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

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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

Although 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 Vinci

There are four powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses sight, hearing, and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
- Leonardo da Vinci

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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

Life well spent is long.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
- Leonardo da Vinci