Leonardo da vinci quotes

average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

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.

Learn diligence before speedy execution.

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

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

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

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

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

He who walks straight rarely falls.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!

The moment is timeless.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

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

life without love, is no life at all

I love those who can smile in trouble.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

That which has no limitations, has no form.

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

Truth was always but the daughter of time.

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.

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

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

It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.

It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

The days are long enough for those who use them.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Especially learn how to see.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

All thoughts start from emotions.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else.

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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.

The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

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

Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.