Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Life
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once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up
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A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
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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.
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A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, though it is deficient only in the power of maintaining equilibrium. We may therefore say that such an instrument constructed by man is lacking in nothing except the life of the bird, and this life must needs be supplied from that of man.
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Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.
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He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
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Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.
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Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.
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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.
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As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.
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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
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For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.
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There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.
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Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.
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Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
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Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
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Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
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The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.
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A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.
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