Leonardo da Vinci Quotes and Sayings with Pictures

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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.     

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.     

Leonardo da Vinci

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.     

Leonardo da Vinci

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Leonardo da Vinci

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

Leonardo da Vinci

Water is the driver of Nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

Lust is the cause of generation.     

Leonardo da Vinci

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci

Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Leonardo da Vinci

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Leonardo da Vinci

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.     
Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.     

Leonardo da Vinci

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

Leonardo da Vinci

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.     

Leonardo da Vinci

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

Leonardo da Vinci

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Leonardo da Vinci

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, it’s for some other.     

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes, so with time present.

Leonardo da Vinci

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.     

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.     

Leonardo da Vinci

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.     

Leonardo da Vinci

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence, he is just using his memory.     

Leonardo da Vinci

Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.     

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.     

Leonardo da Vinci

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.     

Leonardo da Vinci

The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.

Leonardo da Vinci

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.     

Leonardo da Vinci

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

The greatest deception which men incur proceeds from their opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.    

Leonardo da Vinci

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inequality is the cause of all local movements.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Leonardo da Vinci

A gray day provides the best light.

Leonardo da Vinci

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.     

Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.     

Leonardo da Vinci

Iron rusts from disuse even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.      

Leonardo da Vinci

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself

Leonardo da Vinci

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art is never finished, only abandoned.     

Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

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