"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?" ― Leonardo da Vinci Topic(s): Great More From Leonardo da Vinci "In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." "Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous." "Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it." More In Great "What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now."― William Glasser "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."― Oscar Wilde "The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion."― Robert Frost