Leonardo da Vinci on Wisdom
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, catalogued under wisdom, with dates where available.
This page displays 6 quotations attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and filed under "wisdom" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, entry #20614: "Represent your figures in such action as may be fitted to express what purpose is in the mind of each; otherwise your art will not be admirable."
Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, entry #198230: "Wisdom is the daughter of experience."
6 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci on Wisdom
"Represent your figures in such action as may be fitted to express what purpose is in the mind of each; otherwise your art will not be admirable."
"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."
"Ask counsel of him who rules himself well."
"Like a whirling wind which rushes down a sandy and hollow valley, and which, in its hasty course, drives to its centre every thing that opposes its furious course... No otherwise does the Northern blast whirl round in its tempestuous progress..."
"Some there are who are nothing else than a passage for food and augmentors of excrement and fillers of privies, because through them no other things in the world, nor any good effects are produced, since nothing but full privies results from them."
"Those men who are inventors and interpreters between Nature and Man, as compared with boasters and declaimers of the works of others, must be regarded and not otherwise esteemed than as the object in front of a mirror, when compared with its image seen in the mirror. For the first is something in itself, and the other nothingness. — Folks little indebted to Nature, since it is only by chance that they wear the human form and without it I might class them with the herds of beasts."