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Leonardo da Vinci

Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath — painter, inventor, scientist, and the archetype of the universal genius.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Leonardo da Vinci

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Leonardo da Vinci

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci