Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes
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.
Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.
The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.
One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.
You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.
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.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.
It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.
Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.
It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.
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.
Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.