"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."
-Leonardo da Vinci
workView Quote
"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.“
-Leonardo da Vinci
posted in love
Other Quotes
Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection
"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."
-Leonardo da Vinci
workView Quote
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
-Leonardo da Vinci
workView Quote
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
-Leonardo da Vinci
workView Quote
"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
-Leonardo da Vinci
truthView Quote
"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."
-Leonardo da Vinci
truthView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
loveView Quote
"At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish."
-Hillary Clinton
loveView Quote
"Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
-Milan Kundera
loveView Quote
"I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump."
-Zora Neale Hurston
loveView Quote
"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
loveView Quote
"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
-E. M. Forster
loveView Quote