Quotes By Leonardo Da Vinci

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

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

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.

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.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

I have wasted my hours.

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.

Life well spent is long.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

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

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.