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Quotes About Brilliance

To be hated and to cause pain is, at present, the reality for anyone who takes on the rule of others, and anyone who makes himself hated for matters of great consequence has made the right decision; for hatred does not last long, but the momentary brilliance of great actions lives on as a glory that will be remembered forever after. - Pericles
~ Thucydides
Your mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But to tell you a secret. All the best people are.
~ Tim Burton
The spent shell come out the .243 shining like a bright idea.
~ Tim Winton
Clifford Rutledge II was the perfect diplomat. He believed in little beyond his own career, some vague notions of international amity, and his personal ability to make it come about and to avoid war through the sheer force of his brilliance.
~ Tom Clancy
Despite his brilliance, he missed a basic secondary education, for lack of scholarship funds. He believed that the rejection was due to Napoleon's hatred for his father: "this hatred extended even to me, for in spite of the attempts made on my behalf by my father's old comrades, I could never gain entrance to any military school or civilian college.
~ Tom Reiss
You do not have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.
~ Tom Robbins Jitterbug Perfume
We're both serving with some of the brightest lights in Starfleet. It's easy to get lost in the shadows of their brilliance.
~ Kirsten Beyer
the stars were most brilliant against the darkest sky. Their infertility was the darkness, making every happy moment all the more brilliant for it.
~ Kristan Higgins
There are absolute masterpieces that move us intensely: Mozart's Requiem, Homer's Odyssey, the Sistine Chapel, King Lear. To fully appreciate their brilliance may require a long apprenticeship, but the reward is sheer beauty--and not only this, but the opening of our eyes to a new perspective upon the world. Einstein's jewel, the general theory of relativity, is a masterpiece of this order.
~ Carlo Rovelli
There are absolute masterpieces that move us intensely: Mozart's Requiem, Homer's Odyssey, the Sistine Chapel, King Lear. To fully appreciate their brilliance may require a long apprenticeship, but the reward is sheer beauty—and not only this, but the opening of our eyes to a new perspective upon the world. Einstein's jewel, the general theory of relativity, is a masterpiece of this order. I
~ Carlo Rovelli
There are many myths about ability and achievement, especially about the lone, brilliant person suddenly producing amazing things. Yet Darwin's masterwork, The Origin of Species, took years of teamwork in the field, hundreds of discussions with colleagues and mentors, several preliminary drafts, and half a lifetime of dedication before it reached fruition.
~ Carol S. Dweck
Despair and Genius are too oft connected
~ George Gordon Byron
He was bright as broken glass and sharp enough to cut himself.
~ George R.R. Martin
He was a burning and a shining light.
~ Bible
Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.
~ Indra Devi
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Mozart is sunshine.
~ Antonin Dvorak
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight, seeing them as they are, without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius.
~ Maude Adams
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
~ Charles Peguy
The man is a genius, and geniuses don't have to abide by the same rules as the rest of the world.
~ J.D. Robb
Lunatics are, unfortunately, rarely stupid.
~ J.D. Robb
Out of the dark, out of the delicate mist, the lady rose up. Torch held high, face serene and somehow kind. Lights glowed in her, around her, charging her with brilliance, with purpose. And how many, Eve thought, had seen that welcome, that promise, when they'd crossed an ocean to a new world? A new life? How
~ J.D. Robb
Then it's goodbye, Sangsara for me Besides, girls aren't as good as they look And Samadhi is better than you think When it starts in hitting your head In with Buzz of glittergold Heaven's Angels, wailing, saying We've been waiting for you since morning, Jack Why were you so long dallying in the sooty room? This transcendental Brilliance Is the better part (of Nothingness I sing) Okay. Quit. Mad. Stop.
~ Jack Kerouac
You're a Genius all the time
~ Jack Kerouac