
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance painter, engineer and anatomist whose notebooks reveal an insatiable curiosity about nature and art. He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and filled thousands of pages with studies, inventions and observations.
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Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.Leonardo da Vinci

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.Leonardo da Vinci

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass.Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.Leonardo da Vinci

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.Leonardo da Vinci

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

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.Leonardo da Vinci

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.Leonardo da Vinci