734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.

Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.

Small rooms and dwellings set the mind on the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.