Leonardo da Vinci Quotes


40 quotes:

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Understanding Quotes
"I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Thoughts And Thinking Quotes
"You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand"
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Praise Quotes
"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Patience Quotes
"Intellectual passion dries out sensuality."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Passion Quotes
"Intellectual passion drives out sensuality"
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Passion Quotes
"Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Obstacles Quotes
"Nature never breaks her own laws"
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Nature Quotes
"A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Men Quotes Painters And Painting Quotes
"Learning never exhausts the mind"
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Learning Quotes
"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Rest Quotes Judgment Quotes
"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."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Practice Quotes Italian Artist Quotes
"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Knowledge Quotes Italian Artist Quotes
"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Truth Quotes Italian Artist Quotes
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Simplicity Quotes Italian Artist Quotes
"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Inspirational Quotes Italian Artist Quotes
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Inspirational Quotes
"Who sows virtue reaps honor."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: Honor Quotes Italian Artist Quotes
"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."
Author: Vinci Quotes Category: God Quotes Italian Artist Quotes

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