Famous Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

Leonardo Da Vinci

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”

Leonardo da Vinci

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Leonardo da Vinci

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature is the source of all true knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Leonardo da Vinci