Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter, engineer and scientist, 1452-1519
21 quotes.
Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- A small truth is better than a great lie.
- Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
- As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.
- Constancy means, not he who begins, but he who perseveres.
- He who thinks little, errs much.
- He who walks straight rarely falls.
- Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.
- Life if well spent, is long.
- No amount of work is sufficient to weary me.
- Patience serves against insults as clothes do against the cold; since if you multiply your clothes as the cold increases, the cold cannot hurt you.
- Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
- Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
- Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- The power of using my limbs shall fail me before the power of being useful.
- Time stays long enough for those who use it.
- Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
- Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
- You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.