Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

• Our life is made by the death of others.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Death, Dying

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.693, Delphi Classics

• Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Crush

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

• Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Life, Educational

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

• Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Education

• A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Art

• He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

• All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.6, OUP Oxford

• Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Life, Adversity

  "Da Vinci Notebooks".

• While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Death, Eulogy

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.260, OUP Oxford

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Weed, Soil

• Life well spent is long.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Long

  Irma A. Richter (ed.) 'Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' (World's Classics, 1952)

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Arundel MSS British Museum (transl. Edward MacCurdy in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1)

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Codice Trivulziano 281

• He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Humble, Passion

• He who thinks little errs much.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.987, Delphi Classics

• Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• 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.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

• life without love, is no life at all

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

• Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Animal, Men

  Codice Atlantico 76 in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1

• once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

• Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Time

• Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Airplane

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

• 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

  Life, Time, Rivers

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.258, OUP Oxford

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