You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

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Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

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I am an instrument of God. The instrument is not unbreakable, but who is there to break God

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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. ― E.M. Forster

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I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.

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Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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