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The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.

The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.

Leonardo da Vinci
Mind, Body, Study

Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspired, Vain, Labor

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligent, Ends, Exception
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.6, eKitap Projesi

There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to them, and there are an equal number of occasions when these lateral muscles move the lips of this mouth, replacing it where it cannot return of itself, because the function of muscle is to pull and not to push except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Leonardo da Vinci
Moving, Numbers, Mouths
Dell' Anatomia Vol. 1, Ch. III

A gray day provides the best light.

Leonardo da Vinci
Light, Gray, Gray Days

The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

Leonardo da Vinci
Lying, Godly, Speaking Well
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.268, OUP Oxford

My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.

Leonardo da Vinci
Simple, Issues, Experience
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.3, OUP Oxford

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

Leonardo da Vinci
Practice, Knowing, Entering

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Leonardo da Vinci
Truth, Slender, Certainty
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.41, eKitap Projesi

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Leonardo da Vinci
Truth, Intelligent, Chiefs
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Leonardo da Vinci
Creativity, Eye, Air

If the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base.

Leonardo da Vinci
Love, Lovers, Ifs
Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.258, Lulu.com

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Leonardo da Vinci
Lying, Mean, Light
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.384, Delphi Classics

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

Leonardo da Vinci
Wise, Art, Sleep
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Men

If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.

Leonardo da Vinci
Honor, Littles, Foundation

A long life is a life well spent.

Leonardo da Vinci
Life, Long, Wells
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.87, eKitap Projesi

The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci
Order, Solitude, Mind

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

Leonardo da Vinci
Animal, Creating, Mind

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Leonardo da Vinci
Art, Queens, Generations

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Design, Elements
Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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
Judging, Facts, Painting
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1939). “The literary works of Leonardo da Vinci”

The desire to know is natural to good men.

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Good Man, Desire

Life, when is spent well, is long.

Leonardo da Vinci
Long, Wells

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

Leonardo da Vinci
Truth, Intelligent, Light
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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