Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Life well spent is long.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”

— 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

“Water is the driving force of all nature.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

— 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

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

— 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

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

— 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

“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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci