“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
Knowledge
“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.”
NatureAll Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
“Nature never breaks her own laws.”
Nature“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
Learning“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
Art“Our life is made by the death of others.”
Death“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“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”
Experience“Life well spent is long.”
Life“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”
Truth“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 there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
Knowledge“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
Death“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”
Life“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
Courage“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“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
Men“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
God“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”
Hope“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
Pet