Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.

once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

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

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

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

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else.

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

He who walks straight rarely falls.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

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

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

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.