734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.

Lust is the cause of generation.

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.

Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.

Love shows itself more in adversitythan in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place isdarkest.

O time! swift devourer of all created things!

The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.