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.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Leonardo da Vinci

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.

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

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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