Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
JudgmentLogicPerceptionReasoningSenses Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
ContemplationPerceptionReason The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
BodyInterdependenceSpirit The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
ConfusionDepletionDistractionDivisionUnity As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
DebutFameGloryGreatness The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
ExperienceKnowledgeLoveUnderstanding For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
AnatomyArtKnowledgeMovementUnderstanding The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.
Knowledge Acquisition In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.
DualityPresenceTransformation The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
ExperienceKnowledgeReasoning Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
InfluenceOppositionPowerSpontaneity Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.
PerceptionProportionScale There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
CourageIntegrityPerseveranceResilienceStrength I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Art FormsArtistic ExpressionRepresentation The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
DevelopmentDiligenceDisciplinePerseveranceTalent Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
KnowledgePreservationWritten Word 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.
FameMaterialismPowerTransient Success How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
AwarenessDeceptionIgnoranceSufferingTruth Wisdom Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
ActivityInactionMental VigorStagnation Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
GuidancePracticePurposeTheory He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.