Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition." in the context of "Leonardo da Vinci, in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Richter, 1888), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations" to mean that wisdom is timeless.