Leonardo da Vinci

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”

— 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

“Water is the driving force of all nature.”

— 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

“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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”

— 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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Nature never breaks her own laws.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci