Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."

"Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: We are burial places!"

"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."

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

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

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

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

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.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

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

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

I have learned from an early age to 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

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

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

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

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.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

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

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

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