Inspirational Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“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.”

“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”

“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

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

“Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que já trazemos em nós mesmos como modelo. Sou da opinião que não se deverá desprezar aquele que olhar atentamente para as manchas da parede, para os carvões sobre a grelha, para as nuvens, ou para a correnteza da água, descobrindo, assim, coisas maravilhosas. O génio do pintor há-de se apossar de todas essas coisas para criar composições diversas: luta de homens e de animais, paisagens, monstros, demónios e outras coisas fantásticas. Tudo, enfim, servirá para engrandecer o artista.”

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

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”

“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”

“Who sows virtue reaps honour.”

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.”

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

“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”

“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.”

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”