Top 596 Quotes & Sayings by Leonardo da Vinci - Page 3

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

That which has no limitations, has no form.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

I love those who can smile in trouble.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

The moment is timeless.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

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 then be powerless to vex your mind.

He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

The knowledge of all things is possible

When taking a selfie, remember the most natural pose is still best

Poor is the man who desires a lot

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.

Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.

Learn diligence before speedy execution.

The days are long enough for those who use them.

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

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

It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

He who can copy can do.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.