46 quotes
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
“He who does not value life does not deserve 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."
on Nature
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
on Death
"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."
on Education
"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."
on Justice
"You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself."
on Wisdom
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
on Art
"To become an artist you have to be curious."
"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."
on Time
"Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame."
on Fear
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
"He who thinks little errs much…"
"Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm"
on Inspirational
"There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement."
on Philosophy
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."
"The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
on Perception
"Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve."
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
"Water is the driving force of all nature."
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see."
