We’ve collected twenty of the greatest Leonardo da Vinci quotes to help inspire and empower you. Enjoy!
“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“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
“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“The natural desire of good men is knowledge.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“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
“Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
– Leonardo 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
