Leonardo da Vinci Quote: We are deceived by promises and time...

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us…

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Select Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life