Quotes by Leonardo Da Vinci

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

#Praise

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's...

#Painting

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

#Painting, #Poetry, #Poets

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

#Patience

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

#Friendship, #Inspiration, #Life

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

#Evil, #Punishment

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

#Simplicity

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

#The Present

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

#Theory

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

#God, #Work

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

#Deep Life

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

#Life, #Sad