734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul...

All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

Savage is he who saves himself.

If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve bracchia across (over twenty-five feet) and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any height without sustaining injury. [His concept of the parachute.]

Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.