734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.

The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.

Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.