Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

I love those who can smile in trouble...

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

The knowledge of all things is possible

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.