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

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

Lies don't solve problems it just makes it worst. So liars beware

Water is the driving force in nature.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.

I have wasted my hours.

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.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

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

Nature never breaks her own laws.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

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

Experience is never at fault; it is only your judgment that is in error, in promising itself such results from experience as are not caused by our experiments. For having given a beginning, what follows from it must necessarily be a natural development of such a beginning, unless it has been subject to a contrary influence, while, if it is affected by any contrary influence, the result which ought to follow from the aforesaid beginning, will be found to partake of this contrary influence in a greater or lesser degree in proportion as the said influence is more or less powerful than the aforesaid beginning.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood