Leonardo: Quote of the day by Leonardo da Vinci: “Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind” |
In an age of constant notifications, endless scrolling and instant entertainment, Leonardo da Vinci’s centuries-old warning about an inactive mind feels surprisingly modern. “Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind,” Leonardo wrote in his notebooks. The Renaissance polymath used familiar examples from…