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

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...

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and...

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and...

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.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...

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.

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

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

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

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...

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the...

Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the...

Our life is made by the death of others.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,...

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,...

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're...

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're...