Leonardo Da Vinci: Trending quotes

“He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.”

“Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.”

“The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.”

“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

“Look at the grace and sweetness of men and women in the street...”

“It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.”

“Thou, O God, sellest us all benefits, at the cost of our toil....”

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

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

“Who sows virtue reaps honour.”

“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”

“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.”

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

“Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.”

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

“Truth was the only daughter of Time.”

“Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.”

“Though human ingenuity may make various inventions which, by the help of various machines answering the same end, it will never devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than Nature does; because in her inventions nothing is wanting, and nothing is superfluous, and she needs no counterpoise when she makes limbs proper for motion in the bodies of animals. But she puts into them the soul of the body, which forms them that is the soul of the mother which first constructs in the womb the form of the man and in due time awakens the soul that is to inhabit it.”