Quotes By Leonardo da Vinci

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

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

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

There are four powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses sight, hearing, and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

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

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

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.