Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

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

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

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

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

In time and with water, everything changes.

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

Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

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.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

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

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

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

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

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

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

I love those who can smile in trouble.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

life without love, is no life at all

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.

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.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

A gray day provides the best light.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

The cat is nature's masterpiece.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.