Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Italian - Artist April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519

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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.

Leonardo da Vinci

Love Smile Strength Death

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Leonardo da Vinci

Sad Heart Tears Brain Come

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Learning Death Live Thought

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Leonardo da Vinci

Shadow Light Darkness Lie

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Enough Doing Knowing Urgency

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature Knowledge True She

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity Brainy Ultimate

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Learning Mind Never

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

Eyes Walk Travel Earth

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Life Day Death Happy Sleep

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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Leonardo da Vinci

People Brainy See Three

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Leonardo da Vinci

Silence Power Nothing Authority

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Water Mind Inaction Iron

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci

Men Own Opinions Suffer Deception

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

Learning Joy Understanding Pleasure

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Dreams Imagination Eye See

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Leonardo da Vinci

Light Darkness Painting Rest

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge True Shouting Where

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature Water Driving Force

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time Long Enough Will

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time Water You Present

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Leonardo da Vinci

May Practice Ship Never

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Sickness Body Medicine Living

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Mirror Mind Always Colour

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art Never Only Abandoned Finished

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

Intelligence Memory Argument Just

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