Leonardo da Vinci Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

31 Famous Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
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“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
Action Quotes
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
Art Quotes
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
Doing your best Quotes
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”
Beginning Quotes
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
Death and dying Quotes
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
Death and dying Quotes
“Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.”
Elderly Quotes
“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
Evil Quotes
“The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.”
Eyes Quotes
“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
Imagination Quotes
“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.”
Inventions Quotes
“Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments”
Judgement Quotes
“Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor”
Labor Quotes
“I have learned from an early age to 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”
Murder Quotes
“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.”
Nature Quotes
“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”
Nature Quotes
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen”
Painting Quotes
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
Pleasure Quotes
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen”
Poetry Quotes
“The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.”
Poets Quotes
“You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand”
Praise Quotes
“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
Punishment Quotes
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Simplicity Quotes
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art”
Spirit Quotes
“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.”
Theory Quotes