Body Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact,…

— Meher Baba

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

— Anonymous

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

— Rumi

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.

— Michel Foucault

The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from…

— Anonymous

People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down…

— Anthony Trollope

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

— Khalil Gibran