One of the most celebrated artists of all time. The Italian Renaissance artist was an engineer, architect, master painter, sculptor, anatomist, and inventor. Leonardo is considered to be a genius, creating some of the most famous paintings ever painted and known as the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. His notebooks were filled with drawings of many inventions that anticipated modern technology (flying machines, submarines, and war machines), but were rarely constructed in his lifetime.
Among other inventions of the master, there were machines like a cog-wheeled device that has been interpreted as the first mechanical calculator and the car powered by a spring mechanism. Moreover, he made contributed to advance the studies of civil engineering, anatomy, and astronomy. During his years in the Vatican, da Vinci planned an industrial use of solar power, by employing concave mirrors to heat water. (1452 – 1519)
– Leonardo da Vinci Quotes –
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
~ 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
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Learning never exhausts the mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
~ 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
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
~ 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 noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Nature never breaks her own laws.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Our life is made by the death of others.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I have wasted my hours.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Life well spent is long.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Water is the driving force of all nature.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
