Leonardo DaVinci Famous Quotes
"Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous."
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
"Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return."
Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
"It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."
"People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true."
"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."
"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."
Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
Leonardo DaVinci Quotations
"To us, it might look like just a rag. But to the brave, embattled men of the fort, it was more than that. It was a flag of surrender. And after that, it was torn up and used for shoe-shine rags, so the men would look nice for the surrender."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."
Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
Hermann Hesse
Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.
Henry Louis Mencken
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Sir Edward Appleton
"Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."
J Russel Lynes
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
George Orwell
Deliberate often--decide once.
Latin Proverb