« All Animal Quotes · Leonardo da Vinci's Page
Animal Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- King of the animals-- as thou hast described him-- I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest--because thou doest only help…
- One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
- Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by…
- Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never…
- My body is not a tomb for animals.
- The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides,…
- Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.
- As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty…
- I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and…
- Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death…
- I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the…
- Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true,…
- A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.
More Animal Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough