Top 450 Leonardo da Vinci Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

52. “Nature never breaks her own laws.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

53. “Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

54. “Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

55. “Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

56. “Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

57. “Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

58. “Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

59. “An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

60. “A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

61. “The greater the man’s soul, the deeper he loves.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

62. “Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”

— Leonardo da Vinci

63. “One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

64. “All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

66. “The desire to know is natural to good men.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

67. “Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

68. “Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

69. “Vows begin when hope dies.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

70. “He who walks straight rarely falls.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

71. “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

72. “Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

73. “The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

74. “Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

75. “Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

76. “Life well spent is long.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

77. “Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

78. “Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

79. “He turns not back who is bound to a star.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

80. “The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God’s grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

81. “He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

82. “Painting 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

83. “Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

85. “Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

86. “I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

87. “Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

88. “If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

89. “If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

90. “Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

91. “Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

92. “Lust is the cause of generation.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

93. “The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

94. “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

95. “Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

96. “The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

97. “Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

98. “Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

99. “Inequality is the cause of all local movements.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

100. “If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.”

— Leonardo da Vinci