WISDOM QUOTES: FROM THE GREAT LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519)

WISDOM QUOTES: FROM THE GREAT LEONARDO DA VINCI

• He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss. ”

 

• “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” 

 

• “Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.”

 

• 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. ”

 

• “Learning never exhausts the mind. ”

 

• “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
  

 

• “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.”
   
• “An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odor or fragrance, and talks without thinking.” 

 

• “Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” 

 

• “Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”

 

• “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” 

 

• “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.”

 

• “life without love, is no life at all” 

 

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519) was a painter (well known for “The Last Supper” and the “Mona Lisa.”), sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman — the epitome of a “Renaissance man.” With a curious mind and keen intellect, da Vinci studied the laws of science and nature, which greatly informed his work. His ideas and body of work have influenced countless artists and made da Vinci a leading light of the Italian Renaissance.

Reference: https://www.biography.com/people/leonardo-da-vinci-40396