50 phrases by Leonardo da Vinci to get to know this great genius better

Wisdom is the daughter of intelligence.

The day will come when the killing of an animal will be as much a crime as the murder of a man.

Once you have experienced flying, you will walk forever on Earth with your eyes set on Heaven, for that is where you intend to return.

Learning is the one thing the mind is never tired of, never afraid of, and never regrets.

Experience never fails, only our opinions fail, in expecting from experience what it is not capable of offering.

Painting is a poetry that is seen and not felt, and poetry is a painting that is felt and not seen.

The most beautiful words of love are said in the silence of a look.

Knowledge makes the soul young and lessens the bitterness of old age. So gather wisdom. Stores softness for tomorrow.

The sciences that were not born of experimentation, mother of all knowledge, are futile and full of errors.

Man will never invent anything simpler or more beautiful than a manifestation of nature.

Whoever argues claiming authority does not use intelligence, but memory.

Just as the entire divided realm is undone, so the entire intelligence divided into several studies is confused and weakened.

Who thinks little, errs a lot.

May your pride and aim be to put into your work something that resembles a miracle.

Do not despise painting, for you will be despising the accurate and philosophical contemplation of the universe.

Just as courage endangers life, fear protects it.

To be together you don’t have to be close, but inside.

The noblest human passion is that which loves the image of beauty rather than material reality. The greatest pleasure is in contemplation.

Simplicity is the ultimate level of sophistication.

The five senses are the guides of the soul.

Nothing strengthens authority more than silence.

There is no higher majesty than self-mastery.

Only a mediocre student does not surpass his master.

Hate reveals much that remains hidden from love. Remember this and do not despise the censure of enemies.

First comes dedication, then skill.

He scolds his friend in secret and praises him in public.

The advice is very badly received by those who need it most, the ignorant.

The look of the one who hates is more penetrating than the look of the one who loves.

Where there is a lot of feeling, there is a lot of pain.

Little knowledge makes people feel proud. A lot of knowledge, make them feel humble.

To be together you don’t have to be close, but inside.

Art says the unspeakable; expresses the inexpressible, translates the untranslatable.

If a person is persevering, however hard he is, he will become intelligent and however weak he will become strong.

The sun never sees the shadow.

Never imitate anyone. May your production be like a new phenomenon of nature.

Nature never breaks its own laws.

May your work be perfect so that, even after your death, it remains.

The water you touch from the rivers is the last of the one that has gone and the first of the one that comes. So is the present time.

Everything on the plane of reality was once a dream.

Better than having great beauty, is having a great heart.

Just as metal rusts with idleness and stagnant water loses its purity, so inertia depletes the mind’s energy.

He who does not punish evil, supports its action.

The painting should look like a natural thing seen in a large mirror.

I prefer poetry. A scratch, a scribble. And after that, eternity.

The evil that does not affect me is like the good that does not benefit me.

Time lasts a long time for those who know how to make the most of it.

All that is beautiful dies in man, but not in art.

There’s no turning back when the goal is the stars.

There is nothing that deceives us more than our judgment.

You can’t love or hate someone you don’t know yet.