Leonardo da Vinci Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.”

“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”

“Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.”

“I have wasted my hours.”

“Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

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

“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”

“Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.”

“All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.”