Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Joy

• All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.6, OUP Oxford

• There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Science, Understanding

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Philosophy (p. 64)

• The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Appreciation, Nature, Hard Work

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.190, OUP Oxford

• Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Understanding, Kind, Judgment

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Fear, Understanding

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

• Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Understanding, Arguing

• Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Choices, Understanding

• It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Understanding, Blame, Praise

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.67, Lulu.com

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