734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.