Leonardo Da Vinci

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

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.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death

—Leonardo Da Vinci

As you cannot do what you want, want what you can do.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

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

—Leonardo Da Vinci

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

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Life well spent is long.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

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.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

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.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death

—Leonardo Da Vinci

I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Water is the driving force in nature.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Learning never exhausts the mind.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

—Leonardo Da Vinci