734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.