Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

Topics: Genius Quotes

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

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

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you...

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you...

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.

Here are three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are...

Here are three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are...

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.

Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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

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

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not...

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not...

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction...

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction...

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Justice is truth in action.

Justice is truth in action.