734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.

True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

simplicity is the best sophistication