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Leonardo da Vinci
I roamed the...
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
The eye sees...
The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.
Source: In...
The men of...
The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its materials from the...
Iron rusts from...
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the...
As a well-spent...
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
While I thought...
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Men of lofty...
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Source: In...
He turns not...
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
Source: In Reader's Digest, Dec...
I have offended...
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Patience serves as...
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold...
All our knowledge...
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Source: In Wisdom of the Ages...
Just as iron...
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Source:...
Human subtlety ....
Human subtlety . . . will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature...
Time stays long...
Time stays long enough for those who use it.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Obstacles cannot crush...
Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
Source: In...