Quotes from Leonardo DaVinci

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

El pintor es dueño de todas las cosas que el hombre pueda pensar... lo que en el universo existe por esencia, presencia o imaginación, él lo tiene antes en su mente y en sus manos luego

Las ostras se abren por completo cuando hay Luna llena; y cuando los cangrejos ven una ostra abierta, tiran dentro de ella una piedrita o un trozo de alga, a fin de que la ostra no pueda volver a cerrarse y el cangrejo pueda devorarla. Este es también el destino de quien abre demasiado la boca, con lo cual se pone a merced del que lo escucha.

Human subtelty 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.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.

People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

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.