Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), II Linear Perspective
“People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.”
— Anthony Trollope, book The Prime Minister
Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 37
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Anastacia (1968) American singer-songwriter
from an intervew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xros-DSJquM, 2011 <br class="br">General Quotes
Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time
Variant: We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The Analects, The Doctrine of the Mean
“And it is a smaller thing to suffer the punishment than to have deserved it.”
Estque pati poenam quam meruisse minus.
Ovid book Epistulae ex Ponto
I, i, 62; translation by Arthur Leslie Wheeler
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters From the Black Sea)
“The first-beginnings of things cannot be seen by the eyes.”
Nequeunt oculis rerum primordia cerni.
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Book I, line 268 (tr. Munro)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Ed Seykota (1946) American commodities trader
Source: Covel, Trend Following, page 55
