Leonardo da Vinci Quotes.
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
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.
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
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.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
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.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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.
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
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.
