734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.

No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.