You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess. Leonardo da Vinci More Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci More Quotes From Leonardo da Vinci Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting. Leonardo da Vinci nature travel art He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own... because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them. Leonardo da Vinci drawing eye people For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. Leonardo da Vinci motivational inspirational life I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Leonardo da Vinci strange-phenomena countryside answers In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. Leonardo da Vinci invention nature inspirational The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them. Leonardo da Vinci bones fortune moving Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in. Leonardo da Vinci education inspirational life He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss. Leonardo da Vinci intelligent loss Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun. Leonardo da Vinci lasts purpose judging The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. Leonardo da Vinci chiefs intelligent truth Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love. Leonardo da Vinci liberty prison faces There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings. Leonardo da Vinci inspirational men life Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. Leonardo da Vinci passion inspirational life The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it. Leonardo da Vinci color knowledge art In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center of the gravity of the weight will stop beneath the center of its axle. No instrument devised by human ingenuity, which turns with its wheel, can remedy this effect. Oh, speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest. Go and take you place with the seekers after gold. Leonardo da Vinci causes gold doubt The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance Leonardo da Vinci supreme performances theory I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. Leonardo da Vinci technology god work Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense. Leonardo da Vinci understanding eye choices Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. Leonardo da Vinci patriotic integrity memories Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. Leonardo da Vinci soil weed life