Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
19 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci — Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, engineer, and inventor..
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”
“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.”
“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.”
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
“Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.”
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”
“Describe what sneezing is, what yawning is, the falling sickness, spasm, paralysis, shivering with cold, sweating, fatigue, hunger, sleep, thirst, lust.”
“It's a psychological drama that you and I get to interact with. Nobody has come close to painting a painting like that.”
“I have methods for destroying every fortress or other stranglehold unless it has been founded upon a rock.”
“Beauty, grace and talent being united in such a manner, that to whatever the man thus favoured may turn himself, his every action is so divine as to leave all other men far behind him.”
“Paper's not a bad technology. It is really a good technology for the storage and retrieval of information. After 500 years, we still can turn the pages of Leonardo's notebooks.”
“The painter, doubly endowed with subtle powers of perception and the complete ability to pictorialize them, was the person best qualified to achieve true knowledge.”
