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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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.
- Leonardo da Vinci
For once you have tasted flight
you will walk the earth
with your eyes turned skywards,
for there you have been
and there you will long to return.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams
than the imagination when awake?
- Leonardo da Vinci
Experience does not err.
Only your judgments err by expecting from her
what is not in her power.
- Leonardo da Vinci
While I thought that I was learning how to live,
I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I love those who can smile in trouble,
who can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection.
- Leonardo da Vinci
He who is fixed to a star
does not change his mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Learning never exhausts the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Common Sense is that which judges
the things given to it by other senses.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Human subtlety will never devise an invention
more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature,
because in her inventions nothing is lacking,
and nothing is superfluous.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Where Quotes and Sayings
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Where there's life, there's hope.
- Terence
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Compassion blooms where there is no expectation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The journey between what you once were
and who you are now becoming
is where the dance of Life really takes place.
- Barbara De Angelis
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell
