Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."

"Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard."

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

"Our life is made by the death of others."

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"

"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."

"Intellectual passion drives out sensuality."

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."

"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity."

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."

"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."

"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."

"Who sows virtue reaps honor."

"Water is the driving force of all nature."

"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

"Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others."