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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes about Understanding

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It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

Leonardo da Vinci
Understanding, Blame, Praise
Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.67, Lulu.com

Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.

Leonardo da Vinci
Understanding, Kind, Judgment

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Fear, Understanding
Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nature, Science, Understanding
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Philosophy (p. 64)

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Understanding, Arguing

Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.

Leonardo da Vinci
Eye, Choices, Understanding

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