Leonardo da Vinci

“דבר אינו מכשילנו כמו שיקול דעתנו.”

“רבים הם הסוחרים באשליות ובניסים מזויפים ומרמים את ההמונים הטיפשים.”

“הבורות המסנוורת מוליכה אותנו שולל.”

“במקום שהירידה קלה ביותר, העלייה קשה ביותר.”

“מי שמצפה לקבל מן הניסיון מה שהניסיון אינו יכול לתת, מתרחק מן ההיגיון.”

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”

“The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.”

“The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.”

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.”

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”

“Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.”

“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”

“The knowledge of all things is possible”

“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.”

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

“They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words. And [experience] has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases. Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy: on experience, the mistress of their masters.”

“To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.”