Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

31 quotes

Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci has a gift for language that makes complex ideas feel instantly clear. Celebrated for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology, Leonardo da Vinci brought that same intensity to the written and spoken word. Our collection holds 45 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci, each offering a different angle on Work, Nature, Death, Life, and Art. Among their most shared lines: "Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."

“Nature never breaks her own laws.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Nature

All Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

“Nature never breaks her own laws.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Nature

“Life well spent is long.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Life

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Art

“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Change

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Learning

“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Dreams

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Men

“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Intelligence

“Water is the driving force of all nature.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Nature

“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Experience

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Death

“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Time

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Pet

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Death

“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Hope

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

Truth

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Life

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Art

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Business