Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

Topics: Experience Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

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...

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

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

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.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Here are three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are...

Here are three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are...

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...

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you...

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you...

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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...

Life well spent is long.

Life well spent is long.

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...

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...

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.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

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

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

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

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

He'll never be gone - not as long as those who remain are loyal to...

He'll never be gone - not as long as those who remain are loyal to...

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.