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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A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art

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

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...

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...

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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...

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must...

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must...

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

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.

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...

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People...

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People...

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

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...

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...

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Nature never breaks her own laws.