Quotes About Brilliance

Cornelia, closest to both of them, felt an almost indescribable pang, somewhere between arousal and astonishment, envy, compassion, and sorrow. Their combined aura was such that to be near them was both fatally desirable and unendurable to a spectator. Like two blazing candles, catching fire and melting into each other, the composite heat and brilliance might scorch anyone in the vicinity.

Across clearings, an eye, A widening deepening greenness, Brilliantly, concentratedly, Coming about its own business.

Then you see a light—a brilliant, dazzling light—more calming and loving than any words can possibly describe, and everything finally makes sense to you. You are no longer afraid, and you know what lies ahead.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

He was, in fact, an immensely human figure, as talented as he was complex, at once brilliant and naïve, a passionate advocate for social justice and a tireless government adviser whose commitment to harnessing a runaway nuclear arms race earned him powerful bureaucratic enemies. As his friend Rabi said, in addition to being "very wise, he was very foolish.

For me to say I wasn't a genius I would just be lying to you and to myself.

It has often been the case throughout history that those who became legends in their fields were often recluses, loners, and misfits. They did not feel comfortable in crowds. They lived an almost hermetic existence. It is not coincidental that such a personality often achieves brilliance. For he is not Colored by the contagious mediocrity of a peer group.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

Sam Hellerman is a genius!

But in the end, the hackers were misunderstood figures. They wanted nothing more than to belong, to subsume their brilliant selves in an even more incandescent whole, to lose themselves in the poetry of community.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness...

brighter shades of blue and red than he had ever seen. The

Lem nodded. "It is. But a terrible idea executed brilliantly has to be better than a brilliant idea executed terribly. I mean, look at pelicans.

I'm so storming clever that half the time, even I can't follow what I'm talking about.

a terrible idea executed brilliantly has to be better than a brilliant idea executed terribly. I mean, look at pelicans.

The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar," Wit said. "And the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first—but also exploit the first—while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.

that is a gemstone that truly glitters, friend.

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

Genius is full of trash.