Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

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

Nature, Experience, Reason

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Beautiful, Simple

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge, Origins

Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

Learning, Mind, Exhausts

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Leonardo da Vinci

Tongue, Except, Push

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci

Work, God, Quality

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci

Truth, Doubt, Same

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Leonardo da Vinci

Rich, Year, Wishes

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge, True, Shouting

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci

Time, Long, Enough

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

Change, Mind, Star

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da Vinci

Sense, Common, Senses

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci

I have wasted my hours.
Leonardo da Vinci

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da Vinci

End, Beginning, Resist

Nature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Her, Laws

Our life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da Vinci

Life, Death, Made

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci

Understand, Worse, Praise

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Leonardo da Vinci

Power, Experience, Her

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Leonardo da Vinci

Life, Courage, Fear

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo da Vinci

Mind, Between, Divided

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da Vinci

Truth, Superior, Chief

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

Men, Work, Genius

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da Vinci

Honor, Virtue, Reaps

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Leonardo da Vinci

Yourself, Less, Greater

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Artist

Born: April 15, 1452

Died: May 2, 1519

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