Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardoˈvintʃi] ; 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank,...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth15 April 1452
CityVinci, Italy
CountryItaly
The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.
The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.
The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.
Fear arises sooner than anything else.
The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.
He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings. If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected.
A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.
Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.
Necessity is a guardian in Nature.
Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.
To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.
The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.
To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.