Quotes by : Leonardo da Vinci

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

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.....

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen....

Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que já trazemos em nós mesmos como modelo. Sou da opinião....

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire....

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes;....

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

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art