The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.

Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

Topics: Dreams Quotes, Eyes Quotes, Imagination Quotes

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

I have wasted my hours.

I have wasted my hours.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but...

People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but...

Our life is made by the death of others.

Our life is made by the death of others.

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must...

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must...

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Well done is better than well said.

Well done is better than well said.