Leonardo da Vinci was a true Renaissance man excelling as an artist, scientist, and inventor during the Italian Renaissance. He kept many journals where he drew pictures and wrote about musical instruments, helicopters, and the human body. Leonardo’s famous paintings include the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Below are the top 20 quotes by Leonardo Da Vinci that will expand your thought process.
Top 20 Quotes by Leonardo Da Vinci that will expand your thought process
- While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Learning never exhausts the mind.
- 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.
- Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
- Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
- Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
- 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.
- Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
- I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
- He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
- Nature never breaks her own laws.
- There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.