Leonardo Da Vinci
14 quotations
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Our life is made by the death of others.
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Time stays long enough for those who use it.
Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.