The desire to know is natural to good men.

Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

Topics: Desire Quotes, Mankind Quotes

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

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...

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...

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case...

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case...

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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...

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned...

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned...

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 sap...

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

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

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

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.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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...

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

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

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...

Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and...

Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and...

Every dog is a lion at home.

Every dog is a lion at home.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a...

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a...