“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
Art
“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
PetAll Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
Courage“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
Dreams“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
Change“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.”
Experience“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”
Truth“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
Learning“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.”
Nature“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
Death“Nature never breaks her own laws.”
Nature“Life well spent is long.”
Life“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”
Hope“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
Knowledge“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
Men“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
Art“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.”
Business“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
God“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”
Truth“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
Knowledge“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.”
Time