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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo da Vinci
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
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Leonardo da Vinci
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci
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
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
Our life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da Vinci
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci
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.
Leonardo da Vinci
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Leonardo da Vinci
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Leonardo da Vinci
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci
Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci
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
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci
Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
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.
Leonardo da Vinci
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci
Nature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da Vinci
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
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 stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da Vinci
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo da Vinci
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci