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Knowledge Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.
- Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any…
- All our knowledge originates in opinion.
- Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.
- All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.
- For in truth great love is born of great knowledge of the thing loved.
- Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.
- Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
- The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
- The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all…
- The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
- Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.
- 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…
- All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its…
- I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
- Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great…
- All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
- Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
- The knowledge of all things is possible
- 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…
- And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more…
- All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is…
- The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
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- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
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- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov