734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.