Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
Interpretation
Da Vinci emphasizes the importance of integrating art and science to fully develop one’s mind.
This quote highlights Leonardo Da Vinci's belief in the interconnectedness of different disciplines, suggesting that a well-rounded education requires an appreciation of both the scientific and artistic realms. By developing our senses and honing our ability to perceive the world, we can cultivate a more complete understanding of our surroundings and the relationships between various aspects of knowledge and existence.
In practice
In a presentation on education reform, one might quote Da Vinci to advocate for a curriculum that balances the arts and sciences.
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
Forgive yourself - no one else will.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.