Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word:… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and… — 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
