A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They… — 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 mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the… — 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
The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects;… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has… — 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
