Leonardo Da Vinci

I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

I love those who can smile in trouble.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

—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

Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

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.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

He who thinks little errs much.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?

—Leonardo Da Vinci

The knowledge of all things is possible.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

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

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

—Leonardo Da Vinci