Leonardo da Vinci quotes

“Nature never breaks her own laws.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. ”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Water is the driving force of all nature.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Who sows virtue reaps honor.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.”

— Leonardo da Vinci