48 Quotes By Leonardo da Vinci


Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci on learning

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci on learning

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci on life

Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci on life

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 on life

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 on love

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci on marriage

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci on men

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci on men

Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci on nature

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 on nature

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 on nature

Nature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da Vinci on nature

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci on pet

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Leonardo da Vinci on power

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 on smile

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 on strength

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 on time

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci on time

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci on truth