Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The quotations of
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath
1452–1519
36 quotes, most often on Truth & Lies, Life & Death and Art. Part of the Scientists collection.
- The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.
- The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
- The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
- X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?
XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.- XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
- XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Often credited to Leonardo da Vinci
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