LEONARDO DA VINCI

"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."

"Realize that everything connects to everything else."

"O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort."

"The moment is timeless."

"Experience is a truer guide than the words of others."

"Time stays long enough for those who use it."

"Motion is created by the destruction of balance."

"The five senses are the ministers of the soul."

"I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things."

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."

"My body will not be a tomb for other creatures."

"As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."

"One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all."

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."

"He who walks straight rarely falls."

"Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!"

"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."

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."

"Nothing is hidden under the sun."

"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."