Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardoˈvintʃi] ; 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank,...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth15 April 1452
CityVinci, Italy
CountryItaly
He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
Time stays long enough for those who use it.
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.
If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.
He who can copy can do.
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.
Learn diligence before speedy execution.
Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.
True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.
I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.
Water is the driving force of all nature.