Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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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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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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Fear arises sooner than anything else.
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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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Our life is made by the death of others.
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Truth here makes Falsehood torment lying tongues.
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Wine is good, but water is preferable at table.
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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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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 eye can best distinguish the forms of objects when it is placed between the shaded and the illuminated parts.
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Tell me if anything was ever done.
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The motive power is the cause of all life.
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He who does not punish evil commands that it be done.
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When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.
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Swimming upon water teaches men how birds do upon the air.
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Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.
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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 senses are of the earth; Reason, stands apart in contemplation.
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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The Medici created and destroyed me.
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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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He who offends others, does not secure himself.
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The atmosphere is blue by reason of the darkness above it because black and white make blue.
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The body which is nearest to the light casts the largest shadow, and why? If an object placed in front of a single light is very close to it you will see that it casts a very large shadow on the opposite wall, and the farther you remove the object from the light the smaller will the image of the shadow become.