Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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Wine is good, but water is preferable at table.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
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If you transmit the rays of the sun through a hole in the shape of a star you will see a beautiful effect of perspective in the spot where the sun's rays fall.
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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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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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The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
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Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.
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Truth here makes Falsehood torment lying tongues.
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Tell me if anything was ever done.
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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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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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He who does not punish evil commands that it be done.
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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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To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.
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A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.
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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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A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the object than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and so illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.
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Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.
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Observe the light and consider its beauty. Blink your eye and look at it. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is there no more.
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Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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He who walks straight rarely falls.