Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part. "

Leonardo da Vinci

Related Quotes:

" Time abides long enough for those who make use of it. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see. "

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

" You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Water is the driving force of all nature. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. "

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

" Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Our life is made by the death of others. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers. "

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

" Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting. "

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

" Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. "

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