Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

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

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

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

In time and with water, everything changes.

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

Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

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.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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

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

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

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

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

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

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

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

I love those who can smile in trouble.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

life without love, is no life at all

Human subtlety 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.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

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

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

A gray day provides the best light.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

The cat is nature's masterpiece.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.