Quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Los hombres geniales empiezan grandes obras, los hombres trabajadores las terminan (Leonardo Da Vinci)

Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy – on experience, the mistress of their Masters.

Practice must always be founded on sound theory.

Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

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.

In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

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

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

For youth, everything is sport.

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

I love those who can smile in trouble.

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.

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

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

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

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.

Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.