The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ...
by Leonardo da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Sayings by Leonardo da Vinci
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci 
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Learning never exhausts the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
He who is fixed to a star
does not change his mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- 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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Common Sense is that which judges
the things given to it by other senses.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I love those who can smile in trouble,
who can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection.
- 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
While I thought that I was learning how to live,
I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Experience does not err.
Only your judgments err by expecting from her
what is not in her power.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams
than the imagination when awake?
- 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
Noblest Sayings
That service is the noblest
which is rendered for its own sake.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Pleasure Sayings
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
Joy Sayings
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Hoist the sails of CHOICE
to harness the winds of JOY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
My joy is the golden sunset
giving thanks for another day.
Gratitude itself is a source of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves
into a different matter altogether.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Joy is my choice. I choose joy in every moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous
Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Grin your smile;
giggle your laugh;
unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
- Ernest Holmes
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gratitude itself is a source of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Open your mind, open your heart,
and the way to joy becomes clear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
Know that joy is a choice, but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time expands like a brightly colored balloon
when it is filled with joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I soar my spirit, and unfurl my joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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