Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

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

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

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.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

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

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

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

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.