Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, known as Leonardo da Vinci, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, paleontology, and cartography. This Leonardo da Vinci quotes will motivate you.
Best Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
- “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.” – Leonardo da Vinci - “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “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.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “It’s not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.” – Leonardo da Vinci
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“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odor or fragrance, and talks without thinking.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “You don’t get into trouble because of the things you don’t know. It is the things you don’t know you don’t know that really get you into a mess.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Life without love is no life at all” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “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.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “I love those who can smile in trouble.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain” – Leonardo da Vinci
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“Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Nature never breaks her own laws.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “The moment is timeless.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “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.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Learn diligence before speedy execution.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Realize that everything connects to everything else.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.” – Leonardo da Vinci
