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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Education

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Leadership, Spiritual
"The Recognitions". Book by William Gaddis, "Anselm", p. 457, 1955.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Art, Class

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Spiritual, Art
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.444, GENERAL PRESS

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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
Inspirational, Law, Causes

once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Passion

life without love, is no life at all

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Passion

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

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Education, Memories
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Time

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Wise
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.6, OUP Oxford

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

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Happiness
Codice Trivulziano 281

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Motivational, Business
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1938). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Education, Teacher
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Passion

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.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Patience, Hurt
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

He who thinks little errs much.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Passion
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.987, Delphi Classics

I love those who can smile in trouble.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Strength, Smile

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Sad
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Crush
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Education, Teaching

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Dream
Arundel MSS British Museum (transl. Edward MacCurdy in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1)

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Artist
Codice Atlantico 90

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