I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. - Quotaroni

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

- Leonardo da Vinci

More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Who sows virtue reaps honour.

- Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

- Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

- Leonardo da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

- Leonardo da Vinci
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

- Leonardo da Vinci
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

- Leonardo da Vinci
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.

- Leonardo da Vinci
Learning never exhausts the mind.

- Leonardo da Vinci
People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

- Leonardo da Vinci