Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
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The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
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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.
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Whenever you make a figure of a man or of some graceful animal remember to avoid making it seem wooden; that is it should move with counterpoise and balance in such a way as not to seem a block of wood.
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Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.
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The cock does not crow till it has thrice flapped its wings; the parrot in moving among boughs never puts its feet excepting where it has first put its beak. Vows are not made till Hope is dead.
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I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.
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Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.
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That part of the air which is nearest to the wing which presses on it, will have the greatest density.
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Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.
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You will perhaps say that the sinews and muscles of a bird are incomparably more powerful than those of a man... But the reply to this is that such great strength gives it a reserve of power beyond what it ordinarily uses...
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Tell me if anything was ever done.
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The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.
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The senses are of the earth; Reason, stands apart in contemplation.
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The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
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The man who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of sophistical sciences which lead to an eternal quackery.
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The motive power is the cause of all life.
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Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.
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The eye can best distinguish the forms of objects when it is placed between the shaded and the illuminated parts.
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Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.
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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.
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Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.
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The painter strives and competes with nature.
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.