Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

"Learning never exhausts the mind"

"You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand"

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."

"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."

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

"Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve."

"Nature never breaks her own laws"

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection."

"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."

"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves."

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind."

"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."

"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"

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."