Quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

Every man at three years old is half his height

I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!

The act of coitus and the members employed therein are of such ugliness that were it not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the lovers, for the pent-up impulse and the frenetic state of mind, nature would lose the human species.