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Leonardo DaVinci Self Portrait

While in modern times we think of Leonardo DaVinci’s extraordinarily accomplishments, this quotation raises our awareness for the patience that he had to have mounted while enduring disappointments, challenges and obstacles inherent in seeking to understand the world though such diverse mediums including science, engineering, anatomy, art, mathematics, music, writing, inventing & architecture.

“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”

 - Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

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“Wrongfully do men lament the flight of time, accusing it of being too swift, and not perceiving that its period is yet sufficient; but good memory wherewith Nature has endowed us causes everything long past to seem present.”

 - Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

 

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. It is 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 is never finished, only abandoned.”

- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
 

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The Baptism of Christ (1472–1475)
Uffizi, by Verrocchio and Leonardo

Giorgio Vasari, the first Italian art historian, tells the story of the Italian King’s visit to Leonardo Da Vinci, who was on his deathbed. Da Vinci sat up as best he could and said:

“that he had offended God and man in that he had not labored in art as he ought to have done.”

- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) [as told by Giorgio Vasari]

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“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”
 

“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”

 

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

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

 

“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.”

 

“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.”
 

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

- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

 

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