Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

Painter, inventor and scientist—to name but a few of his vocations
1452-1519

• 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 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.
• He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
• Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.
• 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.
• Learning never exhausts the mind.
• All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
• As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
• Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
• The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
• Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment..
• Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going.
• Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind
• Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
• As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.
• Some there are who are nothing else than a passage for food and augmentors of excrement and fillers of privies, because through them no other things in the world, nor any good effects are produced, since nothing but full privies results from them
• You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
• He who thinks little, errs much.

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