Category Quotations

Leonardo da Vinci Says: “The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain

Leonardo da Vinci Says: “The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.”

Leonardo da Vinci Says: “The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.”

Leonardo da Vinci Says: “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

Leonardo da Vinci Says: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”

Leonardo da Vinci Says: “Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.”

Leonardo da Vinci Says: “Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great…

Leonardo da Vinci Says: “Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you…

Leonardo da Vinci Says: “Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab…

Leonardo da Vinci Says: “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”