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Here is the second part of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Famous Quotes.

Famous Quotes of Leonardo Da Vinci

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Leonardo da Vinci

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci

Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci

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

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci

Our life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da Vinci

People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
Leonardo Da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.
Leonardo da Vinci

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Leonardo Da Vinci

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo da Vinci

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo Da Vinci

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other.
Leonardo da Vinci

Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo Da Vinci

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da Vinci

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci

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