More Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.
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.
He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.