The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food,… — 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
If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know… — 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
