734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.