Quotes By Leonardo da Vinci
Polymath
Leonardo da Vinci
Apr 15, 1452 - May 02, 1519
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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?
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
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.
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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