Browse — The Da Vinci Book of Quotes

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward."

"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."

"He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss."

"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."

"Who sows virtue reaps honor."

"The greatest wisdom is to see one's own foolishness."

"The greatest secret is that the thing which is most difficult to know is the thing closest to you — yourself."

"Our life is made by the death of others. In dead matter insensible life remains, which, reunited to the stomachs of living things, resumes life, both sensual and intellectual."

"Ask counsel of him who rules himself well."

"Realize that everything connects to everything else."

"He who does not value life does not deserve it."

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

"Among the great things which are found among us, the existence of nothing is the greatest."

"The sun has never heard the lamentations of the dead."

"He who loves a thing for its utility rather than for its beauty does not understand it."

"The stone, the soil, the water, and the fire make war with one another; but man is the one who benefits, and enjoys the beautiful spectacle."

"What is beautiful is not always good, but what is good is always beautiful."