Leonardo da Vinci Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

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

“Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.”

“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”

“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”

“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”

“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”

“Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.”

“How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.”

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

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”