The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back…

Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

Topics: Life Quotes

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

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

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

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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

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

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...

I have wasted my hours.

I have wasted my hours.

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...

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

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.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself...

Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself...

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

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

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

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of...

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of...

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must...

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must...

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life...

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life...

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.