Here we listed famous Leonardo da Vinci quotes
1. “The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.” –Leonardo da Vinci
2. “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
3. “The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.” –Leonardo da Vinci
4. “Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.” –Leonardo da Vinci
5. “The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.” –Leonardo da Vinci
6. “Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.” –Leonardo da Vinci
7. “Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.” –Leonardo da Vinci
8. “There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.” –Leonardo da Vinci
9. “Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.” –Leonardo da Vinci
10. “People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.” –Leonardo da Vinci
11. “Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.” –Leonardo da Vinci
12. “The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.” –Leonardo da Vinci
13. “To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.” –Leonardo da Vinci
14. “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
15. “Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.” –Leonardo da Vinci
16. “Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.” –Leonardo da Vinci
17. “Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.” –Leonardo da Vinci
18. “Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?” –Leonardo da Vinci
19. “I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.” –Leonardo da Vinci
20. “Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.”-Leonardo da Vinci
21. “Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.” –Leonardo da Vinci
22. “Tears come from the heart and not from the brain” .-Leonardo da Vinci
23. “It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.” –Leonardo da Vinci
24. “The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.”-Leonardo da Vinci
25. “While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.” –Leonardo da Vinci
26. “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”-Leonardo da Vinci
27. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”-Leonardo da Vinci
28. “In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.”-Leonardo da Vinci
29. “I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.” –Leonardo da Vinci
30. “Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.” –Leonardo da Vinci
31. “All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.”-Leonardo da Vinci
32. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” –Leonardo da Vinci
33. “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
34. “Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.” –Leonardo da Vinci
35. “The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.” –Leonardo da Vinci
36. “The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”-Leonardo da Vinci
37. “You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.” –Leonardo da Vinci
38. “Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.” –Leonardo da Vinci
39. “Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”-Leonardo da Vinci
40. “Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.” –Leonardo da Vinci
41. “The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”-Leonardo da Vinci
42. “Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.”-Leonardo da Vinci
43. “You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.”-Leonardo da Vinci
44.” Art is never finished, only abandoned.”-Leonardo da Vinci
45. “Our life is made by the death of others.” –Leonardo da Vinci
46. “Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.”-Leonardo da Vinci
47. “Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”-Leonardo da Vinci
48. “The Medici created and destroyed me.” –Leonardo da Vinci
49. Pa”inting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.” –Leonardo da Vinci
50. “It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” –Leonardo da Vinci
51. “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”-Leonardo da Vinci
52.” Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.”-Leonardo da Vinci
53. “How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.” –Leonardo da Vinci
54. “Nature never breaks her own laws.”-Leonardo da Vinci
55. “Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.”-Leonardo da Vinci
56. “There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.” –Leonardo da Vinci
57. “Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”-Leonardo da Vinci
58. “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”-Leonardo da Vinci
59. “He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.” –Leonardo da Vinci
60. “It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.”-Leonardo da Vinci
