Quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

Water is the driving force in nature.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

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.

Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.

Our life is made by the death of others.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

He who thinks little errs much…

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

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.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

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

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

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.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?

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

Wisdom is the daughter of experience