Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.

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

To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

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