--- title: "5 Guides Quotes By Leonardo da Vinci" description: "5 Guides quotes by Leonardo da Vinci. Plus more from Leonardo da Vinci and more Guides sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb6/leonardo-da-vinci-330_experience_experience-is-a-truer-guide-than-the-wor_276937.jpg" --- > [Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/experience-is-a-truer-guide-than-the-words-of-others/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb6/leonardo-da-vinci-330_experience_experience-is-a-truer-guide-than-the-wor_276937.jpg) > [Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/necessity-is-the-mistress-and-guide-of-nature/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f52/leonardo-da-vinci-330_guides_necessity-is-the-mistress-and-guide-of-n_818066.jpg) > [To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/to-speak-of-this-subject-you-must-explain-the-nature-of-the/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b63/leonardo-da-vinci-330_air_to-speak-of-this-subject-you-must-explai_1234990.jpg) > [Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/those-who-are-in-love-with-practice-without-knowledge-are-like-the-2/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b98/leonardo-da-vinci-330_certain_those-who-are-in-love-with-practice-with_2176506.jpg) > [Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/necessity-is-the-mistress-and-guide-of-nature-necessity-is-the-theme/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f48/leonardo-da-vinci-330_curb_necessity-is-the-mistress-and-guide-of-n_2225763.jpg) ## Other authors on Guides ## More by Leonardo da Vinci > [The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/the-evil-which-does-me-no-harm-is-like-the-good-which-in-no-wise/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) > [A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/a-painter-should-begin-every-canvas-with-a-wash-of-black-because-all/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) > [Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/nothing-can-be-love-or-hated-unless-it-is-first-known/) [Leonardo Da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) > [An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/an-arch-consists-of-two-weaknesses-which-leaning-one-against-the/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) > [But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/but-to-me-all-sciences-seem-vain-and-full-of-error-that-are-not-born/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) > [“Time stays long enough for those who use it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/time-stays-long-enough-for-those-who-use-it/) [Leonardo Da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) > [It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/it-is-ordained-that-to-the-ambitious-who-derive-no-satisfaction-from/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) > [Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/be-a-mirror-absorb-everything-around-you-and-still-remain-the-same/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) > [Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/your-brain-is-much-better-than-you-think-just-use-it/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) > [Necessity is a guardian in Nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/necessity-is-a-guardian-in-nature/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) > [Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/human-subtlety-will-never-devise-an-invention-more-beautiful-more/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) > [People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/people-reveal-themselves-completely-only-when-they-are-thrown-out-of/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) > [To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/to-be-a-winner-you-must-want-to-win-but-must-know-of-the-chance-of/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) > [Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/nature-is-so-delightful-and-abundant-in-its-variations-that-among/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) > [Wisdom is the daughter of experience](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/wisdom-is-the-daughter-of-experience/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guides/leonardo-da-vinci/#itemlist", "name": "5 Guides Quotes By Leonardo da Vinci", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { 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