Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Learning never exhausts the mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

— Leonardo da Vinci

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Water is the driving force of all nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation — even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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