Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
For in truth great love is born of great knowledge of the thing loved. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
