Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
Many have a made a trade of delusions
and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude.
Blinding Ignorance does mislead us.
O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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.
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.
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
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.
