105 Memorable Quotes By Leonardo Da Vinci That Will Leave A Lasting Impression On You

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

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

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

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.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

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

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

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.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.”

Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.