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.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

Leonardo da Vinci

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Leonardo da Vinci

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Leonardo da Vinci

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Leonardo da Vinci

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Leonardo da Vinci

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Leonardo da Vinci

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Leonardo da Vinci

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