Quotes By Leonardo da Vinci
Polymath
Leonardo da Vinci
Apr 15, 1452 - May 02, 1519
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
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.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
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.
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.
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.
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