Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.
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Impetus is a power of the mover applied in a movable thing which causes the movable thing to move after it is separated from its mover.
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Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.
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When I did well, as a boy you used to put me in prison. Now if I do it being grown up, you will do worse to me.
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Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear.
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The city will gain beauty worthy of its name and to you it will be useful by its revenues, and the eternal fame of its aggrandizement.
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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
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It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.
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Be not false about the past.
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What is called Nothingness is to be found only in time and in speech. In time it stands between the past and future and has no existence in the present; and thus in speech it is one of the things of which we say: They are not, or they are impossible.
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I know that many will call this useless work.
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O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.
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Every quantity is intellectually conceivable as infinitely divisible.
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It is bad if you praise, and worse if you reprove a thing, I mean, if you do not understand the matter well.
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Like a whirling wind which rushes down a sandy and hollow valley, and which, in its hasty course, drives to its centre every thing that opposes its furious course... No otherwise does the Northern blast whirl round in its tempestuous progress...
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All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other.
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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
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Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
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O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
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Our life is made by the death of others.
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The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusion round and about the universe, with great noise and trembling or fury.
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
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We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us...
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It is always the under side of the branches of any plant that show themselves to the wind which strikes it, and one leans against the other.