Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

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

Leonardo da Vinci

The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

Leonardo da Vinci

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs

Leonardo da Vinci

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Leonardo da Vinci

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.

Leonardo da Vinci

Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Leonardo da Vinci