Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes
Italian Renaissance architect, musician, inventor, engineer, sculptor, and painter.
(1452 - 1519)
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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.
[Aviation]
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A good painter is to paint two main things, namely men and the working of man's mind.
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A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
[Evenings]
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
[Perception]
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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
[Art]
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
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Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.
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Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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Disgrace should be represented upside down, because all her deeds are contrary to God and tend to hell.
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Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
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Even the smallest feline is a work of art.
[Cats]
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Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.
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Experience, the interpreter between formative nature and the human race, teaches how that nature acts among mortals; and being constrained by necessity cannot act otherwise than as reason, which is its helm, requires her to act.
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Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favor with God.
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Fear arises sooner than anything else.
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