Leonardo da Vinci

37 quotes

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.

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

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward.

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