More Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.