“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”
Experience
“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
NatureAll Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
“Life well spent is long.”
Life“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
God“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
Change“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
Men“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
Knowledge“Our life is made by the death of others.”
Death“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
Art“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”
Truth“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
Death“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“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
Art“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
Dreams“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“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”
Truth“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.”
Life“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
Learning“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“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
Nature“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
Knowledge