Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter, and tank, he epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. May his quotes inspire you to live a life of simplicity so that you may live your dreams.
1. “While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.” Leonardo da Vinci
2. “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” Leonardo da Vinci
3. “All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.” Leonardo da Vinci
4. “Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” Leonardo da Vinci
5. “Who sows virtue reaps honor.” Leonardo da Vinci
6. “Once you tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. ” Leonardo da Vinci
7. “Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?” Leonardo da Vinci
8. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.” Leonardo da Vinci
9. “Life without love, is no life at all.” Leonardo da Vinci
10. “Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” Leonardo da Vinci
11. “Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” Leonardo da Vinci
12. “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.” Leonardo da Vinci
13. “Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind; large ones weaken it.” Leonardo da Vinci
14. “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” Leonardo da Vinci
15. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” Leonardo da Vinci
16. “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” Leonardo da Vinci
17. “There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.” Leonardo da Vinci
18. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” Leonardo da Vinci
19. “The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.” Leonardo da Vinci
20. “Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.” Leonardo da Vinci
21. “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” Leonardo da Vinci
22. “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
23. “The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” Leonardo da Vinci
24. “Water is the driving force of all nature.” Leonardo da Vinci
25. “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
26. “Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.” Leonardo da Vinci
27. “The painter has the universe in his mind and hands.” Leonardo da Vinci
28. “Life well spent is long.” Leonardo da Vinci
29. “Blinding ignorance does mislead us. Open your eyes.” Leonardo da Vinci
30. “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
31. “I awoke, only to find that the rest of the world is still asleep.” Leonardo da Vinci
32. “Nature never breaks her own laws.” Leonardo da Vinci
33. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” Leonardo da Vinci
34. “Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master.” Leonardo da Vinci
35. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo da Vinci
Thank you for this collection of his quotes
Your welcome George