Leonardo da Vinci Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

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

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3. 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.

4. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

5. Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

6. Wisdom is the daughter of experience

7. All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. Leonardo's Notebooks

8. Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

9. Der Augenblick ist zeitlos.

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11. If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof. Leonardo's Notebooks

12. In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes: so with time present. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

13. Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

14. Men do wrong to lament the flight of time, complaining that it passes too quickly and failing to perceive that its period is sufficiently long; but a good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes everything that is long past to appear to us to be present.

15. Nessuna cosa si può amare nè odiare, seprima no si ha cognition di quella.(No thing you can love or hate, if you don't know it before.)

16. O Time, consumer of all things! O envious age, thou destroyest all things and devourest all things with the hard teeth of the years little by little, in slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror and saw the withered wrinkles which old age had made in her face wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away. Leonardo's Notebooks

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

18. Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

19. Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que já trazemos em nós mesmos como modelo. Sou da opinião que não se deverá desprezar aquele que olhar atentamente para as manchas da parede, para os carvões sobre a grelha, para as nuvens, ou para a correnteza da água, descobrindo, assim, coisas maravilhosas. O génio do pintor há-de se apossar de todas essas coisas para criar composições diversas: luta de homens e de animais, paisagens, monstros, demónios e outras coisas fantásticas. Tudo, enfim, servirá para engrandecer o artista.

20. The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

21. The knowledge of all things is possible

22. Wisdom is the daughter of experience