Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.

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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
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
Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
— 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
He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?
— Leonardo da Vinci
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
— 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
Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
— Leonardo da Vinci
He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.
— Leonardo da Vinci
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
— 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
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
— Leonardo da Vinci
He who thinks little errs much…
— Leonardo da Vinci
My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Our life is made by the death of others.
— Leonardo da Vinci
A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
— Leonardo da Vinci
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Water is the driving force in nature.
— Leonardo da Vinci
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
— Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
— Leonardo da Vinci
An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Time stays long enough for those who use it.
— Leonardo da Vinci