Leonardo Da Vinci quotes

" As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. " # Death and Dying # Happiness # Life and Living

" The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. " # Understanding # Pleasure # Happiness

" Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. " # Idleness # Action # Intelligence and Intellectuals

" Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. " # Memory

" [Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. " # Humankind # Class # Love

" While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. " # Death and Dying # Learning # Life and Living

" A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind. " # Painters and Painting # Arts and Artists # Architecture

" Intellectual passion dries out sensuality. " # Politicians and Politics # Passion # Intelligence and Intellectuals

" Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. " # Genius # Freedom # Power

" Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! " # Books - Reading