Leonardo da Vinci Quote: The image of the sun where it...

The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it.

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Select Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life

Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Nature is a source of truth. Experience does not ever err, it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci