Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

You cannot leave everything to Fate, boy. She's got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand.

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

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.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

[Men who boast but do nothing] can call themselves nothing more than a passage for food, producers of dung, fillers up of privies, for of them nothing else appears in the world

Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.