105 Memorable Quotes By Leonardo Da Vinci That Will Leave A Lasting Impression On You

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

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

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.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

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

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

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

People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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.

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

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

The knowledge of all things is possible.