Leonardo da Vinci on Mind
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, catalogued under mind, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, entry #21729: "The mind passes in an instant from east to west; and all the great incorporeal things resemble these very closely in speed."
Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, entry #157918: "Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
3 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci on Mind
"The mind passes in an instant from east to west; and all the great incorporeal things resemble these very closely in speed."
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness; and this truth is in itself so excellent that, even when it dwells on humble and lowly matters, it is still infinitely above uncertainty and lies, disguised in high and lofty discourses; because in our minds, even if lying should be their fifth element, this does not prevent that the truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects, though not of wandering wits. But you who live in dreams are better pleased by the sophistical reasons and frauds of wits in great and uncertain things, than by those reasons which are certain and natural and not so far above us."