734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

For 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.

i thought i was learning to live but i was learning to die

Perché la minestra si fredda.

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.

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude.”“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

No human investigation can be called real knowledge if it does not pass through mathematical demonstrations; and if you say that the kinds of knowledge that begin and end in the mind have any value as truth, this cannot be conceded, but rather must be denied for many reasons, and first of all because in such mental discussions there is no experimentation, without which nothing provides certainty of itself.

LEARNING NEVER EXHAUSTS THE MIND

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Je tiefer das Gefühl, desto größer der Schmerz.