Great Quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, Leonardo da Vinci also became known for his notebooks, in which Leonardo made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and paleontology.
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation, even so does an action sap the vigor of the mind.”
“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”
“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”
“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.”
“I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.”
“Our life is made by the death of others.”
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.”
“God sells us all things at the price of labor.”
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.”
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
“He who walks straight rarely falls.”
“Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.”
“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”
“He who can copy can do.”
“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”
“Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.”
“He who thinks little airs much…”
“All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.”
“He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.”
“It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.”
“No counsel is more trustworthy than that which is given upon ships that are in peril.”
“He who does not value life does not deserve it.”
“Beauty perishes in life but is immortal in art.”
“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”
