"The noblest pleasure is the joy of..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
More by Leonardo Da Vinci
“Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.”
“O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.”
“When taking a selfie, remember the most natural pose is still best”
More on Understanding
“... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.”
“It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.”
“One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.”
More on Joy
“Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.”
“I get the most joy in life out of music.”
“The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song?”