Quotes About Brilliance

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.

There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.

What he found were "a few brilliant beacons in a fog of fools.

Susan, you are a brilliant and interesting person. I like you very much. John, you are so warm and loving. People really appreciate that about you.

Shakuntala Devi

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

I like her." Because she makes you shine.

To be brilliant is not a matter of being right more often than the next fellow; yes, that may be part of the pedestrian definition. It is in large part a matter of holding firm to convictions as long as possible, but not a moment longer.

To be brilliant is not a matter of being right more often than the next fellow...It is in large part a matter of holding firm to convictions as long as possible, but not a moment longer. The brilliant man must trust he is always right even when adrift alone with his conviction.

How are you so smart?" Stevie asked. "I read a lot," Janelle said, smiling. She unzipped the front of her bag, shoved her pass inside and secured the lanyard to a clip, and zipped the bag back up again. Janelle did everything completely, even putting her pass away. "And I'm just amazing.

Luckily, she knew a genius.

The eyes were dark and startling. They held such a wealth of intellect and of twinkling gaiety that his glasses seemed to be worn not to protect his eyes but to protect other men from their excessive brilliance.

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

Diamond. He's bright and shiny and worth a lot. Harder than anything else there is.

When you're given a brilliant child, you polish her and let her shine.

is the case, I think, that it's what is decent, brilliant, and wise in a people that now we most need to know more about, and need to share with each other, not the banal evidence of their miscalculations or the supposed absence in them of the kind of sophistication we imagine ourselves to be in exclusive possession of.

That's genius, you see. The masterstroke that no one recognises until it's been pulled off.

Without wisdom, brilliance is not enough.

broke into a blaze of effulgence.

The brilliance of the moon, of fire, the brilliance that flames from the sun to illumine the entire world - this brilliance in truth is mine. Entering the earth, I support all beings by my life-giving power: becoming the nectar-filled moonlight. I cause plants and herbs to thrive.

A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

Brilliance is encouraged but optional. Competence, however, is mandatory.

meinstein n. My son, the genius.

The Enlightenment thinkers were men and women of their age, the 18th century. Some were racists, sexists, anti-Semites, slaveholders, or duelists. Some of the questions they worried about are almost incomprehensible to us, and they came up with plenty of daffy ideas together with the brilliant ones. More to the point, they were born too soon to appreciate some of the keystones