Misfortunes Quote by Leonardo da Vinci Download Open image “The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance” — Leonardo da Vinci ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Misfortunes Performances Theory
If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous. — Grove Karl Gilbert Copy Share Image
Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune. — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
“Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!” — Abhijit Kar Gupta Copy Share Image
If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious. — Assar Lindbeck Copy Share Image
The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut,… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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