Quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light

Tristo è quel discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro.

Non appena nasce la virtù, nasce contro di lei l'invidia, e farà prima il corpo a perdere la sua ombra che la virtù la sua invidia.

Nessuna cosa si può amare nè odiare, se prima no si ha cognition di quella. (No thing you can love or hate, if you don't know it before.)

Men do wrong to lament the flight of time, complaining that it passes too quickly and failing to perceive that its period is sufficiently long; but a good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes everything that is long past to appear to us to be present.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Certainly it seems that nature desires to exterminate the human race, as a thing useless to the world, and the destroyer of all created things.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

A bird is like an instrument working according to mathematical law, and it is in the capacity of man to reproduce such an instrument

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity

Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.

In der Einfachheit liegt die größte Vollendung

una volta che avrete imparato a volare, camminerete sulla terra guardando il cielo perché è là che siete stati ed è là che vorrete tornare...

Uno non può possedere capacità più grande o più piccola della padronanza di se stesso.

L'esperienza è il solo insegnante in cui possiamo confidare.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

Perché la minestra si fredda.

People of accomplishments rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They go out and happen to things.

Verrà il tempo in cui l'uomo non dovrà più uccidere per mangiare, ed anche l'uccisione di un solo animale sarà considerato un grave delitto

Tomaso of Florence. known as Masaccio, showed by his perfect works how those who took their nourishment from anything but nature, mistress of masters, were laboring in vain.

Who sows virtue reaps honour.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. For there you have been, and there you will always long to return

The instant does not have time; and time is made from the movement of the instant.

A painter without a brush is like a weasel without a tongue