Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

— Leonardo da Vinci

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death

— Leonardo da Vinci

Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

— Leonardo da Vinci