Life Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Life, when is spent well, is long.

— Leonardo da Vinci

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.

— Leonardo da Vinci

He who thinks little errs much…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The motive power is the cause of all life.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Our life is made by the death of others.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Life well spent is long.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo Da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with…

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

“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

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

A life well used procures a happy death.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A long life is a life well spent.

— Leonardo da Vinci

In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

— Leonardo da Vinci