Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. [Українська] [Русский]
Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
—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
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
—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
My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
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
Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Realize that everything connects to everything else.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Life without love, is no life at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
—Leonardo Da Vinci
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
—Leonardo Da Vinci