Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties.

I think sighted people let their eyes cheat them out of certain things. People who can see don't have a great sense of smell because they don't use it.

There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense." "Well, actually, that would be one of the five.

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?

How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!

It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.

When we consider how nearly equal all men are in their bodily force, and even in their mental powers and faculties, till cultivated by education, we must necessarily allow that nothing but their own consent could at first associate them together and subject them to any authority.

What one hopes for is always better than what one has.

Such is human nature, in the gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition, and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

In any battle between what the ear hears and what the eye sees, the eye wins every time.

We get so intellectual that we forget that we're physical creatures.

We take the sense of touch for granted. Think about it: Without it, you're missing one of the basic senses that enables you to interact with the world.

Art is really more musical than it is visual.

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen.

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

There's often a natural inclination to want more.

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.