Leonardo da Vinci

Quotes from Leonardo da Vinci.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
- Leonardo da Vinci

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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.
- Leonardo da Vinci