Leonardo da VinciMenWork Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form. – Leonardo da Vinci
KnowledgeLeonardo da VinciNature Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. – Leonardo da Vinci
HopeLeonardo da VinciMarriage Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. – Leonardo da Vinci
GreatKnowledgeLeonardo da Vinci For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all. – Leonardo da Vinci
GodLeonardo da VinciWork I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have. – Leonardo da Vinci
FoodKnowledgeLeonardo da Vinci Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. – Leonardo da Vinci
ExperienceLeonardo da VinciNature 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
DreamsImaginationLeonardo da Vinci Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? – Leonardo da Vinci
DeathLeonardo da VinciLife As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. – Leonardo da Vinci
DeathLearningLeonardo da Vinci While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. – Leonardo da Vinci
CourageFearLeonardo da VinciLife Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. – Leonardo da Vinci
