Top 100 Leonardo Da Quotes
#1. You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills
Leonardo Da Vinci
#2. Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#3. It's amazing - and poignant - to think that Leonardo (da Vinci)did consider himself as something of a failure. He didn't believe that he had achieved everything he might have done. His notebooks have a repeated refrain: 'Tell me if I ever did a thing.
Ross King
#5. O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
Leonardo Da Vinci
#7. Nitre, vitriol, cinnabar, alum, salt ammoniac, sublimated mercury, rock salt, alcali salt, common salt, rock alum, alum schist, arsenic, sublimate, realgar, tartar, orpiment, verdegris.
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#9. In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Yanko Tsvetkov
#10. Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#11. He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#12. First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.
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#14. The draperies that clothe figures must show that they are inhabited by these figures, enveloping them neatly to show the posture and motion of such figures, and avoiding the confusion of many folds, especially over the prominent parts, so that these may be evident
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#15. As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
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#16. All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.
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#17. A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."
Leonardo Da Vinci
#18. Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
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#19. If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul ...
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#20. Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.
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#21. A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.
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#23. No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
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#24. It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.
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#25. Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
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#26. The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
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#27. Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.
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#28. If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.
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#29. To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.
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#30. The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#31. 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.
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#33. Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
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#34. Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.
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#35. 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.
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#36. When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.
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#38. He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.
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#39. I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.
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#40. For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
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#45. I expose to men the origin of their first, and perhaps second, reason for existing
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#47. The average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, inhales without smelling, and talks without thinking." - Leonardo da Vinci Benefits
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#48. I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.
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#50. I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
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#51. Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.
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#53. Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.
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#56. He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.
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#57. 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.
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#58. Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings ... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.
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#59. As a well-spent day gives, joy in sleep
so a well-spent life brings, joy in dying
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#60. The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.
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#63. The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images.
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#66. He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.
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#68. We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.
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#69. Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
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#72. In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. (They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.)
Mark Twain
#73. O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#77. Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#78. Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.
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#79. To Nature, since it is only by chance that they wear the human
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#81. Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.
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#82. I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
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#83. A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.
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#86. It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.
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#87. Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.
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#88. Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful.
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#89. The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
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#90. Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
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#92. How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time or death. Thus, the work of the painter is nobler than that of nature, its mistress.
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#93. The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#94. A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
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#95. Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
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#96. 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.
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#98. Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea ...
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#99. He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.
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