Leonardo da Vinci's quotes

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

When the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.

Life well spent is long.

The depth and strength of human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Experience does not ever err, it is only your judgement  that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiences.

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

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on  more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellectuals.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as the light to darkness.