Quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

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.

A life well used procures a happy death.

The motive power is the cause of all life.

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

A long life is a life well spent.

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

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

In time and with water, everything changes.

Life, when is spent well, is long.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

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

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

The moment has no time.

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.