My Favorite Quotes by Leonardo Da Vinci::
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"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."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci"
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
- Leonardo da Vinci
"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"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."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else."
- Leonardo da Vinci
And the ones I love the most!
"Our life is made by the death of others."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
- Leonardo da Vinci
