Inspirational Quotes » Leonardo Da Vinci

Quote #12350

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:13:57 +0000

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Quote #11920

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:13:52 +0000

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Quote #11057

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:13:42 +0000

Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Quote #10473

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:13:36 +0000

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Quote #10220

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:13:33 +0000

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Quote #9093

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:13:20 +0000

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Quote #8820

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:13:17 +0000

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Quote #6889

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:12:56 +0000

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Quote #6778

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:12:55 +0000

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, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Quote #3524

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:12:18 +0000

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.