O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold. Leonardo da Vinci More Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci More Quotes From Leonardo da Vinci Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. Leonardo da Vinci naturebeautifulbeauty Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. Leonardo da Vinci vexclothespatience You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself. Leonardo da Vinci bullyinginspirationalkids You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you. Leonardo da Vinci blowattitudebook It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite. Leonardo da Vinci finiteinfiniteifs Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. Leonardo da Vinci intelligentbraverycourage Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. Leonardo da Vinci artistinspirationallife Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed. Leonardo da Vinci enteringknowingpractice Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions. Leonardo da Vinci menlifethinking Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more. Leonardo da Vinci follyworkmen Good writing comes from good talent. Leonardo da Vinci talentgood-writingwriting Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them. Leonardo da Vinci mennightcountry First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science. Leonardo da Vinci practiceartfirsts The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base. Leonardo da Vinci sensuallifefirsts A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs. Leonardo da Vinci attitudemenart Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves. Leonardo da Vinci perspectiveshadowlight As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. Leonardo da Vinci happinessinspirationallife 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. Leonardo da Vinci recordsmightorder A well-spent day brings happy sleep. Leonardo da Vinci happymotivationaldeath A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along. Leonardo da Vinci attitudementwo
