Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  God, Work, Technology

• The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Stars, Wine, Discovery

• Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Nature, Travel

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.105, OUP Oxford

• Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Choices, Understanding

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