Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
The original Renaissance man — painter, scientist, engineer and anatomist. Leonardo's notebooks reveal a mind curious about everything, from water and flight to the smile of the Mona Lisa. Below are 17 of the most loved Leonardo da Vinci quotes, chosen from across their works and letters. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Whoever in discussion adduces his authority uses not intellect but memory.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece of nature.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Water is the driving force of all nature.