“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
Men
“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.”
IntelligenceAll Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
Courage“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
Art“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
Death“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”
Time“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”
Truth“Life well spent is long.”
Life“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“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
God“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”
Life“Our life is made by the death of others.”
Death“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
Dreams“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“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
Art“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
Knowledge“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
Knowledge“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“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.”
Intelligence“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