Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

My life changed forever the first time I went to the southern hemisphere.

The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

It makes sense that somebody told you that you made the film from your perspective as a father.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.

Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it.

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

Little things are great to little men.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

Maybe my life isn't great. We don't have all the answers. Look at it from my side.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress