Leonardo da Vinci quotes Born: 04/15/1452 Died: 05/02/1519 Country: france

• A well-spent day brings happy sleep (Leonardo Vinci)
• All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. (Leonardo 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 Vinci)
• Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. (Leonardo Vinci)
• Art is never finished, only abandoned. (Leonardo Vinci)
• As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death (Leonardo Vinci)
• As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself (Leonardo Vinci)
• Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness (Leonardo Vinci)
• Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! (Leonardo Vinci)
• Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses (Leonardo Vinci)
• 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 Vinci)
• Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power (Leonardo Vinci)
• He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. (Leonardo Vinci)
• 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 Vinci)
• He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. (Leonardo 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 Vinci)
• 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 Vinci)
• I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. (Leonardo Vinci)
• I have wasted my hours (Leonardo 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 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 Vinci)
• Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind (Leonardo Vinci)
• 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. (Leonardo Vinci)
• It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. (Leonardo Vinci)
• Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. (Leonardo Vinci)
• Learning never exhausts the mind. (Leonardo 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 Vinci)
• Life well spent is long. (Leonardo Vinci)
• Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. (Leonardo Vinci)
• Nature never breaks her own laws. (Leonardo Vinci)
• Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active (Leonardo Vinci)

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