Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

"People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true."

"A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind."

"Intellectual passion drives out sensuality"

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."

"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."

"Intellectual passion dries out sensuality."

"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."

"Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known."

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."

"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."

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

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

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

"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"

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

"Learning never exhausts the mind"

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

"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."

"Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."