Top 100 Leonardo 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. When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.'
Frank Abagnale
#8. Nitre, vitriol, cinnabar, alum, salt ammoniac, sublimated mercury, rock salt, alcali salt, common salt, rock alum, alum schist, arsenic, sublimate, realgar, tartar, orpiment, verdegris.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#10. Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#11. 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
#12. The oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179)
Mev Puleo
#13. 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
#14. That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#15. He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
[On Leonardo Da Vinci]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#16. First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#18. 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
Leonardo Da Vinci
#19. 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.
Viggo Mortensen
#20. All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#21. 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
#22. I just happen to think people are better off doing something they actually like.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#23. Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#24. 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 ...
Leonardo Da Vinci
#25. Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#26. A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#27. I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#29. No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#30. That sounded so incredibly romantic. Of course, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet had thought the same thing in Titanic. And look how that had ended.
Rachel Hawthorne
#31. 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.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#32. Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#34. The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#35. Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#36. If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#37. 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.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#38. To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#39. The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#40. 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
#42. Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#43. 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.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#44. I get a friend to travel with me ... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#45. 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
#46. 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.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#48. I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.
Leonardo Sciascia
#49. He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#50. I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#51. 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.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#52. Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket.
Leonardo Donofrio
#57. I expose to men the origin of their first, and perhaps second, reason for existing
Leonardo Da Vinci
#58. [Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#60. 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
Dharma Hazari
#61. I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#62. I have no problem playing anyone who has different politics than me. In fact, I don't take that into consideration at all. You have to find something sympathetic in a man. It's that common ground you need to connect with someone.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#63. Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#64. I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to survive despite the fact that you know that they're not going to.
Carlton Cuse
#65. I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#67. I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#68. 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.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#70. Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#73. He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#74. 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
#75. 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.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#77. As a well-spent day gives, joy in sleep
so a well-spent life brings, joy in dying
Leonardo Da Vinci
#78. I know a lot of the intense moments in 'Titanic' were made that much easier and were pushed to even further limits because of that relationship.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#79. The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#80. since pain and misery are among the few things that, when shared, always multiply. The
Leonardo Padura
#81. (Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#84. I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#85. The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#86. 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.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#87. A biblically based worldview is capable of affirming the best insights of secular philosophies without ever falling into reductionism.
Nancy Pearcey
#90. He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#91. I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#92. I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#93. My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#94. as those old engravings of the 'Cenacolo,' or that painting by Gentile Bellini, in which one sees, in a state in which they no longer exist, the masterpiece of Leonardo and the portico of Saint Mark's. We
Marcel Proust
#96. We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#97. Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#100. Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.
Leonardo Boff
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