Top 92 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

About Leonardo da Vinci

These are some quotes by Italian author Leonardo da Vinci Artist, who lived between April 15, 1452 and May 2, 1519.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

Leonardo da Vinci

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Leonardo da Vinci

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

Leonardo da Vinci

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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.

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Leonardo da Vinci

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Leonardo da Vinci

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