Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”

“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.”

“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.”

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

“Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.”

“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 vigor of the mind.”

“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”

“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”