Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

“God sells us all things at the price of labor.”

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

“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death”

“Water is the driving force in nature.”

“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.”

“Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.”

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

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

“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.”

“All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.”

“They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by word...”

“Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que j trazemos em ns mesmos como modelo. Sou da opinio que no se dever desprezar aquele que olhar atentamente para as manchas da parede, para os carves sobre...”

“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.”

“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”

“The Duke would not pay for the works. He says that the Castle can never be taken. That is called hubris, Giacomo, the belief that you are never wrong. Believing you are never wrong is an error that...”

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”

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