"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 DaVinci
"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they
are shown, those who do not see." - Leonardo
DaVinci
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand." - Leonardo DaVinci
"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses." - Leonardo DaVinci
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it." - Leonardo DaVinci
"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects." - Leonardo DaVinci
"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else." - Leonardo DaVinci
"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 DaVinci
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo DaVinci
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." - Leonardo DaVinci
"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have." - Leonardo DaVinci
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." - Leonardo DaVinci
"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." - Leonardo DaVinci
"Learning never exhausts the mind." - Leonardo DaVinci
"Who sows virtue reaps honor." - Leonardo DaVinci
"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."
- Leonardo DaVinci
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo DaVinci
"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death." - Leonardo DaVinci
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." - Leonardo DaVinci