734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to them, and there are an equal number of occasions when these lateral muscles move the lips of this mouth, replacing it where it cannot return of itself, because the function of muscle is to pull and not to push except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing

This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in what stage it dwells there, and the manner of its quickening and feeding, and its growth, and what interval there is between one stage of growth and another, and what thing drives it forth from the body of the mother, and for what reason it sometimes emerges from the belly of its mother before the due time.

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.