Education and Knowledge

The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then 39 to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Those who are enamored of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

M a k e yo u r s e l f a m a s t e r o f perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

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 necessity.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, 25 then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

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

The knowledge of all things is possible.

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your 9 senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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 can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.