Top 450 Leonardo da Vinci Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

152. “Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”

— Leonardo da Vinci

153. “Learn diligence before speedy execution.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

154. “Not to anticipate is already to moan.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

155. “It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

156. “Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

157. “All thoughts start from emotions.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

158. “Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

159. “Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

160. “Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

161. “Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

162. “He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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163. “Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

164. “The natural desire of good men is knowledge.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

165. “He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

166. “Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

167. “The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

168. “There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

169. “If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

170. “Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

171. “There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, ’tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

172. “Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?”

— Leonardo da Vinci

173. “The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

174. “Motion is created by the destruction of balance.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

175. “I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

176. “Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

177. “Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

178. “I’m not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

179. “Truth was always but the daughter of time.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

180. “There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

181. “Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony is composed of the union of proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

182. “Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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183. “Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

184. “He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

185. “A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

186. “People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

187. “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

188. “Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

189. “Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

190. “A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

191. “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

192. “Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

193. “Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

194. “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

195. “Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

196. “A life well used procures a happy death.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

197. “People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

198. “That which has no limitations, has no form.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

199. “Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

200. “You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci