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

Topics: Experience Quotes, Nature Quotes, Reason Quotes

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...

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap...

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap...

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not...

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not...

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...

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...

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

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...

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

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

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...

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep

A well-spent day brings happy sleep

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...

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

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...

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

No artist is ahead of his time. He 'is' his time; it is just that...

No artist is ahead of his time. He 'is' his time; it is just that...

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind...

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind...

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little...

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little...

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of...

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of...