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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptionsLeonardo Da Vinci
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Our life is made by the death of others.Leonardo Da Vinci
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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.Leonardo Da Vinci
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All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.Leonardo Da Vinci
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They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words. And [experience] has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases. Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy: on experience, the mistress of their masters. .Leonardo Da Vinci
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Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que já trazemos em nós mesmos como modelo. Sou da opinião que não se deverá desprezar aquele que olhar atentamente para as manchas da parede, para os carvões sobre a grelha, para as nuvens, ou para a correnteza da água, descobrindo, assim, coisas maravilhosas. O génio do pintor há-de se apossar de todas essas coisas para criar composições diversas: luta de homens e de animais, paisagens, monstros, demónios e outras coisas fantásticas. Tudo, enfim, servirá para engrandecer o artista. .Leonardo Da Vinci
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Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.Leonardo Da Vinci
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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Realize that everything connects to everything else.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Wisdom is the daughter of experienceLeonardo Da Vinci
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.Leonardo Da Vinci
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The knowledge of all things is possibleLeonardo Da Vinci
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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.Leonardo Da Vinci
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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
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Make your work to be in keeping with your purposeLeonardo Da Vinci
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If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof.Leonardo Da Vinci
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That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us. Hold property and external riches with fear; they often leave their possessor scorned and mocked at for having lost them.Leonardo Da Vinci
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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
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As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise.- Leonard Da VinciLeonardo Da Vinci
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Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.Leonardo Da Vinci
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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.Leonardo Da Vinci
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.Leonardo Da Vinci
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.Leonardo Da Vinci
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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
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What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in artLeonardo Da Vinci
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I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupilsLeonardo Da Vinci
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The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind paintingLeonardo Da Vinci
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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Art is never finished, only abandonedLeonardo Da Vinci
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God sells us all things at the price of labor.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed deathLeonardo Da Vinci
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Water is the driving force in nature.Leonardo Da Vinci
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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
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.Leonardo Da Vinci
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.Leonardo Da Vinci
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It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.Leonardo Da Vinci
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If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.Leonardo Da Vinci
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I am fully conscious that, not being a literary man , certain presumptuous persons will think that they may reasonably blame me; alleging that I am not a man of letters. Foolish folks! do they not know that I might retort as Marius did to the Roman Patricians by saying: That they, who deck themselves out in the labours of others will not allow me my own. They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words; and experience has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases. .Leonardo Da Vinci
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Learning never exhausts the mind.Leonardo Da Vinci
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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.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.Leonardo Da Vinci
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No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.Leonardo Da Vinci
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If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his person, which may not happen to be so beautiful as it ought to be. He must, therefore, guard particularly against that self-love, or too good opinion of his own person, and study by every means to acquire the knowledge of what is most beautiful, and of his own defects, that he may adopt the one and avoid the other.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.Leonardo Da Vinci
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To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to these senses — ribelli ad essi sensi — such as the existence of God or of the soul or similar things over which there is always dispute and contention. And in fact it happens that whenever reason is wanting men to cry out against one another, which does not happen with certainties. For this reason we shall say that where the cry of controversy is heard, there is no true science, because the truth has one single end and when this is published, argument is destroyed for ever. .Leonardo Da Vinci
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He who thinks little errs much…Leonardo Da Vinci
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.Leonardo Da Vinci
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I love those who can smile in trouble...Leonardo Da Vinci
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Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.Leonardo Da Vinci
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To become an artist you have to be curious.Leonardo Da Vinci
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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.Leonardo Da Vinci
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He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.Leonardo Da Vinci
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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.Leonardo Da Vinci
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.Leonardo Da Vinci
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He who does not value life does not deserve it.Leonardo Da Vinci
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.Leonardo Da Vinci
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There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any stormLeonardo Da Vinci
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Oh Lord thou givest us everything at the price of an effort.Leonardo Da Vinci
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He turns not back who is bound to a star.Leonardo Da Vinci
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A well-spent day brings happy sleep.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.Leonardo Da Vinci
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The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.Leonardo Da Vinci
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A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.Leonardo Da Vinci
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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
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?Leonardo Da Vinci
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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.Leonardo Da Vinci
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The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Water is the driving force of all nature.Leonardo Da Vinci
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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
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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
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.Leonardo Da Vinci
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.Leonardo Da Vinci
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.Leonardo Da Vinci
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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
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Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.Leonardo Da Vinci
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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
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Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.Leonardo Da Vinci
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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
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Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.Leonardo Da Vinci
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.Leonardo Da Vinci
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The natural desire of good men is knowledge.Leonardo Da Vinci
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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
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For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.Leonardo Da Vinci
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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
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Who sows virtue reaps honor.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.Leonardo Da Vinci
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Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.Leonardo Da Vinci