The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“as a well-spent day gives, joy in sleep so a well-spent life brings, joy in dying” — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word:… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Love shows itself more in adversitythan in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place isdarkest. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Men fight wars and destroy everything around them. The earth should open and swallow them up. He who does not value life… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. — Leonardo Da Vinci Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
