"Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.












Wisdom is the daughter of experience
More Leonardo da Vinci quotes
"The knowledge of all things is possible
"Realize that everything connects to everything else.
"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
"The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be l...
"Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
"All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
"I am fully conscious that, not being a literary man , certain presumptuous persons will think that they may reasonably blame me; alleging that I am no...
"To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which i...