Leonardo Da Vinci: Trending quotes (page 13)

“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.”

“What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.”

“He who can copy can do.”

“Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”

“We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.”

“Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.”

“Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern… Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.”

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep”

“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.”

“The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.”

“Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.”

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”

“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”

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

“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.”

“Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude. Pharisees — that is to say, friars.”

“The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.”

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

“The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.”