Wisdom Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

“All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.”

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.”

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

“Perfect things stop breathing. They become monuments to the fear that made them.”

“Good books are rare, and to have a really good library, a few shelves are all we need. When I was still on my campus in India, I was convinced, like many professors, that if the Lord was to be found anywhere, it was in the lower stacks of the library. But now - just as when I go into a big department store, I can say, "How many things I don't need! How many expensive suits I don't want!" - when I enter a big library I say, "What tomes I don't have to read again! What folios I will never open!" This feeling of freedom will come to all of us when we realise, in the depths of our meditation, that all wisdom lies within.”

“Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you Kālāmas, do not be led by reports, or traditions, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious texts, not by the delight in speculative opinions, nor by seeming possibilities, not by the idea: 'this is our teacher'. But, O Kālāmas, when you know for yourself that certain things are unwholesome, and wrong, and bad, then give them up... And when you know for yourself that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.”

“The world is patient. But it is not kind.”

“Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.”