Leonardo da Vinci

60 quotes

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."

Leonardo da Vinci

"It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience."

Leonardo da Vinci

"He turns not back who is bound to a star."

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

"Inequality is the cause of all local movements."

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

"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."

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

"All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions"

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

"The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses."

Leonardo da Vinci

"The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."

Leonardo da Vinci

"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."

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

"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."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

Leonardo da Vinci

"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."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Art is never finished, only abandoned."

Leonardo da Vinci

"A well-spent day brings happy sleep."

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci