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Bodies Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never…
- We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.
- I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies…
- Of several bodies all equally larger and distant, that most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.
- The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
- The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours…
- I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and…
- Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will…
- The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by…
More Bodies Quotes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with… — Richard Bach
- Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. — Tyra Banks
- All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the… — George Berkeley
- The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. — Mortimer Adler
- The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties.… — Annie Besant
- When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the… — Jim Bishop
- On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies,… — Erma Bombeck
- Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes… — Brandon Boyd