Quotes About Brilliance

I'm intrigued by smart people.

I'm a little smarter than most.

Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.

Either this guy's a total idiot, or he's the biggest genius to hit physics in years!

He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.

išta nije shvatio i još danas nimalo ne shva?a važnost bezna?ajnosti. -Da, razumijem. Nepotrebno je biti briljantan. - Više nego nepotrebno. Štetno.

Ništa nije shvatio i još danas nimalo ne shva?a važnost bezna?ajnosti. -Da, razumijem. Nepotrebno je biti briljantan. - Više nego nepotrebno. Štetno.

All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

Some people were genetically predisposed to be brilliant; other poor souls were destined to be idiots.

We could be dreaming all the time, but we do not perceive those dreams while we are awake because consciousness (like the sun obscuring stars during the day) is much too brilliant to allow the unconscious content so much definition.

I stopped talking and stared into the distance. Hold on, I whispered. I think I'm about to be brilliant. -Nina Tanleven, The Ghost Wore Gray

The Tragedy of the human condition is that the very things that make us interesting and culturally important and progressively brilliant are our differences; and these are also the principle reasons for our prejudices

I think I'm able to explain things because understanding wasn't entirely easy for me. Some things that the most brilliant students were able to see instantly I had to work to understand. I can remember what I had to do to figure it out. The very brilliant ones figure it out so fast they never see the mechanics of understanding.

Each Voyager is itself a message. In their exploratory intent, in the lofty ambition of their objectives, in their utter lack of intent to do harm, and in the brilliance of their design and performance, these robots speak eloquently for us.

There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brilliance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation with experiment. In my view, the human condition would be greatly improved if such confrontations and willingness to reject hypotheses were a regular part of our social, political, economic, religious and cultural lives.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

we are privileged to live among brilliant and passionately inquisitive people, and in time when the search for knowledge is generally prized

a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something was broken.

He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid.

The original reality of Amitabha is our own Dharma body, It shines out brightly everywhere, in the South, North, East, and West, It is like the autumn moon that lies in the high, vast sky, In the silence of the night its brilliance shines far over the ocean.

No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.

I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.

You are just your intelligence.