Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

"There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see."

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

He recorded these thoughts at the instant of their birth, for a constant habit of observation and analysis had early developed with him into a second nature. His ideas were penned in the same fragmentary way as they presented themselves to his mind, perhaps with no intention of publishing them to the world. But his ideal of art depended intimately, none the less, on the system he had thrown out seemingly in so haphazard a manner. His method gives to his writings their only unity. It was more than a method: it was a permanent expression of his own life, which aided him to construct a philosophy of beauty characteristic of the new age.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us...

Thou, O God, sellest us all benefits, at the cost of our toil....

In der Einfachheit liegt die größte Vollendung

O admirable impartiality of Thine, Thou first Mover; Thou hast not permitted that any force should fail of the order or quality of its necessary results.

Whenever you make a figure of a man or of some graceful animal remember to avoid making it seem wooden; that is it should move with counterpoise and balance in such a way as not to seem a block of wood.

الجهل يعمي ابصارنا
ايها البشر الفانون! افتحوا أعينكم.

A shadow may be infinitely dark, and also of infinite degrees of absence of darkness. The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

All bodies together, and each by itself, give off to the surrounding air an infinite number of images which are all-pervading and each complete, each conveying the nature, colour and form of the body which produces it.

So vile a thing is a lie that even if it spoke fairly of God it would take away somewhat from His divinity; and so excellent a thing is truth that if it praises the humblest things they are exalted.

Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light. Primary light is that which falls on objects and causes light and shade. And derived lights are those portions of a body which are illuminated by the primary light. A primary shadow is that side of a body on which the light cannot fall.

once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.