Leonardo Da Vinci – Famous Quotes from Renaissance Man Part 1

Leonardo Da Vinci was considered a genius of his time as he was able to demonstrate a characteristics not common by the old times and as such is called a polymath people. He is famous for most of his paintings and artworks but he is also a skilled person in mathematics, carpentry, anatomy, botany, astronomy and paleontology.

A quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance that is introduced by a quotative marker, such as a verb of saying.

Quotes also represent also a summary of what a person have learned over time. As we know Leonardo Da Vinci is a very talented Renaissance man during the 15^th to 16^th Century. We could learn a thing from his intellect and we can ponder on the meaning of the words as we can use them as well in our daily lives.

Famous Quotes from Renaissance Man Part 1

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

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Leonardo da Vinci

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
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

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo da Vinci

Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci

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

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo Da Vinci

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

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

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