Italian painter, anatomist, architect, paleontologist, artist, botanist, scientist, writer, sculptor, philosopher, engineer, inventor, musician, and poet, Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519), developed ideas far ahead of his time, such as the helicopter, the battle tank, the submarine, and the automobile.
Explore our collection of Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes that will inspire you to live your life with curiosity.
The knowledge of all things is possible.
– Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes
1. “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
2. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
3. “The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
4. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
5. “Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
6. “I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
7. “It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
8. “Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
9. “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
10. “Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
11. “Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
12. “It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
13. “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
14. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
15. “Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
16. “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
17. “Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
18. “I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
19. “The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance” – Leonardo Di Vinci
20. “Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
21. “Time stays long enough for those who use it.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
22. “Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
23. “Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
24. “To become an artist you have to be curious.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
25. “A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
26. “A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
27. “What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
28. “Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
29. “An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
30. “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
31. “Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
32. “It is as great an error to speak well of a worthless man as to speak ill of a good man.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
33. “Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
34. “Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
35. “A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
36. “Most people, if you give them a book, they sniff around on it awhile, then try to eat it.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
37. “He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
38. “Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
39. “Lies don’t solve problems it just make it worst …so liars beware.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
40. “People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
41. “Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
42. “Nature never breaks her own laws.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
43. “Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
44. “Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
45. “It’s not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.” – Leonardo Di Vinci
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