Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived in the Western world. He is often referred to as the Father of paleontology, ichnology and architecture. Sometimes he is credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank.
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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Leonardo da Vinci

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Leonardo da Vinci

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their prin...

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Leonardo da Vinci

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Leonardo da Vinci
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leonardo da Vinci

Our life is made by the death of others.

Leonardo da Vinci

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Leonardo da Vinci

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Leonardo da Vinci

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Leonardo da Vinci

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Leonardo da Vinci

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Leonardo da Vinci

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Leonardo da Vinci

Author Bio

  • NameLeonardo da Vinci
  • DescriptionItalian Renaissance polymath
  • AliasesLeonardo; da Vinci
  • BornApril 15, 1452
  • DiedMay 2, 1519
  • CountryRepublic Of Florence
  • ProfessionPainter; Engineer; Astronomer; Philosopher; Anatomist; Mathematician; Sculptor; Polymath; Architect; Civil Engineer; Diplomat; Inventor; Composer
  • WorksAdoration Of The Magi; Virgin Of The Rocks; Mona Lisa; The Last Supper; Lady With An Ermine; Vitruvian Man; Annunciation; St. Jerome In The Wilderness; The Virgin And Child With St. Anne; St. John The Baptist