734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

We should not desire the impossible.

For in truth great love is born of great knowledge of the thing loved.

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.