Here are 30 Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes of Visions and Thoughts. These quotes come from his extensive collection of notebooks, reflecting his thoughts and observations:
- “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Attributed, often cited in design contexts.
- “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Attributed, reflects his lifelong pursuit of knowledge.
- “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” – Attributed, reflects his views on artistic creation.
- “Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.” – Attributed, from his notebooks.
- “A well-spent day brings happy sleep.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “Water is the driving force of all nature.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “I love those who can smile in trouble.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.” – Attributed, reflecting societal observations.
- “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “The painter has the universe in his mind and hands.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “Blinding ignorance does mislead us.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “Nature is the source of all true knowledge.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “The knowledge of all things is possible.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.
- “He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.” – From his notebooks, c. 1500s.