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
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
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead,… — 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 lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is… — 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
“Men fight wars and destroy everything around them. The earth should open and swallow them up. He who does not value life… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with… — 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
