Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes & Quotations

Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

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

» Our life is made by the death of others.

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

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

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

» 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.

» Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

» 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.

» Time stays long enough for those who use it.

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

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