“A man is worthy of praise or blame solely on account of those actions which lie within his power to do or not to do.”
Leonardo da Vinci (verified)
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“He who thinks little, errs much.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Ask advice of him who governs himself well.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Truth was the only daughter of Time.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occured in experience.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (unverified)“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (unverified)“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (unverified)“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (unverified)“Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (unverified)“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (unverified)“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (unverified)“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 (unverified)Louis Pasteur Tony Hoare Napoleon Bonaparte Richard Feynman Bill Gates