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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, was a Renaissance polymath whose genius spanned art, science, engineering, and anatomy. Widely regarded as one of the most diversely talented individuals in history, Leonardo’s curiosity and inventive mind led him to make groundbreaking contributions across multiple fields. As an artist, his masterpieces like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper are celebrated for their innovative use of perspective, intricate detail, and profound emotional depth. Beyond painting, Leonardo’s notebooks reveal his visionary ideas, including early designs for flying machines, anatomical studies that predated modern medical science, and explorations of botany, geology, and physics. His approach to observation and experimentation laid foundational principles for both the arts and sciences, embodying the quintessential Renaissance ideal of the “universal man.” Leonardo da Vinci passed away on May 2, 1519, in Amboise, France, leaving behind a legacy of creativity and intellect that continues to influence and inspire the world.

Here is a selection of Leonardo da Vinci’s quotes on various topics:

Inspiration:

  • “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
  • “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.”
  • “Learning never exhausts the mind.”
  • “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”
  • “I awoke only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.”
  • “Nature is the source of all true knowledge.”
  • “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
  • “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
  • “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
  • “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
  • “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.”
  • “Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”
  • “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
  • “An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without awareness, and talks without thinking.”
  • “In time and with water, everything changes.”
Motivation:
  • “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.”
  • “Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
  • “Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”
  • “A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”
  • “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
  • “People of accomplishment rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They go out and happen to things.”
  • “He who walks straight rarely falls.”
  • “It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
  • “Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”
  • “While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
  • “The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.”
  • “The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.”
Wealth:
  • “He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”
  • “The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.”
  • “He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”
  • “Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”
  • “Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.”
  • “He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
  • “Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”
  • “He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
  • “He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.”
Health:
  • “He who does not value life does not deserve it.”
  • “A well-spent day brings happy sleep, and a life well used brings happy death.”
  • “Our body is dependent on heaven, and heaven on the Spirit.”
  • “Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory and it retains nothing it takes in.”
  • “The power of water becomes clear only when we see it cascade.”
  • “Man and animals are equally patient when it comes to enduring the bad and enjoying the good.”
  • “The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
  • “Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.”
  • “Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.”
Life:
  • “Life well spent is long.”
  • “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.”
  • “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”
  • “A life without love is no life at all.”
  • “As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.”
  • “The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.”
  • “Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
  • “Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no use.”
  • “The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the central sense can most completely and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature.”
  • “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
Success:
  • “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
  • “The knowledge of all things is possible.”
  • “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”
  • “Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”
  • “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
  • “A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”
  • “Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.”
  • “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.”
  • “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

Beauty:
  • “Nature never breaks her own laws.”
  • “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
  • “Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.”
  • “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
  • “Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.”
  • “The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.”
  • “The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
  • “Beauty adorns virtue.”
Love:
  • “A life without love is no life at all.”
  • “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
  • “Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.”
  • “To enjoy – to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.”
  • “A lover of life is a lover of the divine.”
  • “A life well used procures a happy death.”

Happiness:
  • “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
  • “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
  • “While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
  • “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
  • “Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
  • “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
  • “Learning never exhausts the mind.”
  • “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
  • “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

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