Leonardo da Vinci quotes

“life without love, is no life at all”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

  

 

“Water is the driving force in nature.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”
― 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

 

 

 

 

“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.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

 

“The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

“While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than nature does, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

  

“Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.”
― 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

 

 

  

“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

 

 

 

“He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

  

 

“My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.”
― 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

 

 

 

  

“Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

 

“Der Augenblick ist zeitlos.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

  

 

“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.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

“Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks

 

 

“Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

  

 

“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
― 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

 

 

 

“The human bird shall take his first flight,filling the words with amazement,all writings with his fame,and bringing eternal glory to those whose nest whence he sprang.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

  

 

“What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

  

 

“Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

  

 

“As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.”
― 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

 

 

 

“We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

  

 

“Experience is never at fault; it is only your judgment that is in error, in promising itself such results from experience as are not caused by our experiments. For having given a beginning, what follows from it must necessarily be a natural development of such a beginning, unless it has been subject to a contrary influence, while, if it is affected by any contrary influence, the result which ought to follow from the aforesaid beginning, will be found to partake of this contrary influence in a greater or lesser degree in proportion as the said influence is more or less powerful than the aforesaid beginning.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. So we must stretch ourselves to the very limits of human possibility. Anything less is a sin against both God and man.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

 

“The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

  

 

“The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

“Hari yang dilewatkan dengan baik, akan menghasilkan tidur yang nyenyak.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

 

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

  

“simplicity is the best sophistication”
― Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks

 

 

  

“Our life is made by the death of others”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

“And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

“The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

“Nitre, vitriol, cinnabar, alum, salt ammoniac, sublimated mercury, rock salt, alcali salt, common salt, rock alum, alum schist, arsenic, sublimate, realgar, tartar, orpiment, verdegris.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks

 

 

 

“He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

“I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils”
― Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life

 

 

 

 

 

“All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.”
― Leonardo da Vinci