Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

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

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.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.