Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

He is a poor pupil who does not go beyond his master.

Fa vini potenti e assai, … e ‘l vino vale el più uno soldo il boccale e la libbra della vitella un soldo e ‘l sale 10 dinari, e ‘l simile il burro, ed è la loro libbra 30 once, e l’ova un soldo la soldata. (Modern Italian)

ليس هناك ما يسمى بالمعرفة الكبرى أو المعرفة الصغرى، بل هناك نوع واحد من المعرفة وهو ذلك النوع الذى يأتى عن طريق التجريب

Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.

Tell me if anything was ever done... Tell me... Tell me.

It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

"Those who accomplish don't sit around, hoping things will happen
to them"...

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness; and this truth is in itself so excellent that, even when it dwells on humble and lowly matters, it is still infinitely above uncertainty and lies, disguised in high and lofty discourses; because in our minds, even if lying should be their fifth element, this does not prevent that the truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects, though not of wandering wits. But you who live in dreams are better pleased by the sophistical reasons and frauds of wits in great and uncertain things, than by those reasons which are certain and natural and not so far above us.

Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.

Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.

A painter without a brush is like a weasel without a tongue

Art is never completed, only abandoned.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.

Quelli che s’innamorano della pratica senza la scienza, sono come i nocchieri che entrano in naviglio senza timone o bussola, che mai hanno certezza dove si vadano. Sempre la pratica dev’essere edificata sopra la buona teorica, della quale la prospettiva è guida e porta, e senza questa nulla si fa bene.