It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Small rooms and dwellings set the mind on the right path, large ones cause it to go astray. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer… — 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 Image
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 Image
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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 Image
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
