Quotes By Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Water is the driving force of all nature.

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

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.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Our life is made by the death of others.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

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

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

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

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

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

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

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