734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.