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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes about Time

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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Time

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
Life, Time, Rivers
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.258, OUP Oxford

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Leonardo da Vinci
Time, Men, Compassion

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

Leonardo da Vinci
Time, Promise, Disappoint
Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

Leonardo da Vinci
Time, Learning, Science

O time! swift devourer of all created things!

Leonardo da Vinci
Time
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1061, Delphi Classics

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

Leonardo da Vinci
Time, Memories, Past
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.84, eKitap Projesi

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

Leonardo da Vinci
Daughter, Time, Science
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.246, OUP Oxford

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

Leonardo da Vinci
Time, Wrinkles, Mirrors
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

Leonardo da Vinci
Time, Hopeful, Coincidence
"The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.

Leonardo da Vinci
Time, Kings, Space
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.453, GENERAL PRESS

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