Leonardo da Vinci ( 10 of 26 )
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is read more
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.
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.
Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused read more
Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her read more
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.