Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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151. “I wish to work miracles...”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

153. “To enjoy – to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

156. “Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

159. “It’s not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

160. “Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

162. “Nature alone is the master of true genius.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

165. “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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

168. “Among the great things which are to be found among us, the being of nothingness is the greatest.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

169. “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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

172. “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

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. “Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

176. “A day will come in which men will look upon an animal’s murder the same way they look today upon a man’s murder.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

178. “Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

180. “If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

181. “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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

183. “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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

185. “The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

186. “A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

187. “Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

189. “First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

190. “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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

194. “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

195. “That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

196. “The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

197. “It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

198. “O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

199. “When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci