Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

1.Learning never exhausts the mind.

2.Who sows virtue reaps honour.

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

4.Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

5.Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

6.He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

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

8.In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

9.I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

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

11.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.

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

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

14.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.