Human subtlety 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.

Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

Topics: Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a...

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a...

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and...

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and...

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how...

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how...

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he...

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he...

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he...

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he...

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor

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

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the...

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the...

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize...

You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize...

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very...

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very...