Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's...

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's...

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is...

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is...

People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but...

People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but...

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not...

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not...

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how...

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how...

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...

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

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

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he...

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he...

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and...

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and...

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a...

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a...

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

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

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.