"Patience serves as a protection against
wrongs as clothes do against cold.
For if you put on more clothes
as the cold increases,
it will have no power to hurt you.
So in like manner you must grow in patience
when you meet with great wrongs, and they
will then be powerless to vex your mind."
-Leonardo Da Vinci

"The men of experiment are like the ant;
they only collect and use.
But the bee . . . gathers its materials from the
flowers of the garden and of the field, but
transforms and digests it by a power of its own."
-Leonardo Da Vinci

"The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams
than the imagination awake."
-Leonardo Da Vinci

"I roamed the countryside searching
for answers to things I did not understand."
-Leonardo Da Vinci

"Men of lofty genius when they are
doing the least work are most active."
-Leonardo Da Vinci

"Iron rusts from disuse,
stagnant water loses its purity
and in cold weather becomes frozen;
even so does inaction sap
the vigors of the mind."
-Leonardo Da Vinci

"The noblest pleasure
is the joy of understanding."
-Leonardo Da Vinci

"Every now and then go away,
have a little relaxation,
for when you come back to your work
your judgment will be surer.
Go some distance away because
then the work appears smaller
and more of it can be taken in at a glance
and a lack of harmony and proportion
is more readily seen."
-Leonardo Da Vinci

"Anyone who in discussion
relies upon authority uses,
not his understanding,
but rather his memory."
-Leonardo Da Vinci

"While I thought that I was
learning how to live,
I have been learning how to die."
-Leonardo Da Vinci

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death."
-Leonardo Da Vinci