Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Our life is made by the death of others.

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.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

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

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

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

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

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

People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.