Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that… — 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
