Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, tr. Richter (1883)
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Leonardo da Vinci quotes
1452-1519 ยท Scientists and inventors
Renaissance painter, engineer and inventor who filled notebooks with observations.
8 quotes, 8 traced to where Vinci said or wrote them.
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, tr. Richter (1883)
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, tr. Richter (1883)
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, tr. Richter (1883)
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, tr. Richter (1883)
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, tr. Richter (1883)
Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, tr. Richter (1883)
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, tr. Richter (1883)