Quotes By Leonardo da Vinci

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

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves.

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

Water is the driving force in nature.

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

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.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

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

I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.