As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. — Leonardo Da Vinci Copy Share Image
Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who… — 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
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
The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture. — 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
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
Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life… — 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
It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small… — 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
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
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
Love shows itself more in adversitythan in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place isdarkest. — 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 Image
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 Image
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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 Image
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
