Tag: Leonardo da Vinci
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Our life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I have wasted my hours.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da Vinci
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo da Vinci