Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

It is as great an error to speak well of a worthless man as to speak ill of a good man.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Uno non può possedere capacità più grande o più piccola della padronanza di se stesso.

That is not riches, which may be lost; virtue is our true good and the true reward of its possessor. That cannot be lost; that never deserts us, but when life leaves us. As to property and external riches, hold them with trembling; they often leave their possessor in contempt, and mocked at for having lost them.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

Be not false about the past.

reality the fancy of his dreams, and give outward expression to the ideal within.

Science, knowledge of the things that are possible present and past; prescience, knowledge of the things which may come to pass.

Like a whirling wind which rushes down a sandy and hollow valley, and which, in its hasty course, drives to its centre every thing that opposes its furious course... No otherwise does the Northern blast whirl round in its tempestuous progress...

A well-spent day brings happy sleep

A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Look at the grace and sweetness of men and women in the street...

Tristo è quel discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro. (Modern Italian)

There will be many which will increase in their destruction.