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Leonardo da Vinci

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

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Leonardo da Vinci is saying that experience itself is reliable and does not make mistakes. Instead, mistakes come from our own wrong expectations about what experience can teach or achieve.

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