More quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
"The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."
"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."