Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

I love those who can smile in trouble...

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

To become an artist you have to be curious.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery, the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

~ 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

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Water is the driving force of all nature.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

~ 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

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

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

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci