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
As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up
A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.
Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.
Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?