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Quotes About Brilliance

Mad raging sunsets poured in seafoams of cloud through unimaginable crags, with every rose tint of hope beyond, I felt just like it, brilliant and bleak beyond words.
~ Jack Kerouac
In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but they did not know when they set it up we would just have a two-party system. It just so happens that our electorate pushed towards the two-party system because it's a very good way to govern.
~ Jamie Dimon
I think someone like Khandi Alexander, who's now on 'Treme,' is one of the most extraordinary actresses I've seen in years. But she's dependent on someone brilliant like David Simon to realize that and to give her a forum. Tyler Perry's not interested in that kind of nuance because it doesn't sell.
~ Hilton Als
Britain wouldn't have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.
~ Sara Sheridan, London Calling
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
~ Ann Landers
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
~ Confucius
Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.
~ Toni Morrison
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~ Taylor Caldwell
You will inhale Exhalation in a single, stunned sitting, because true genius doesn't come along nearly as often as advertised.' Blake Crouch
~ Ted Chiang
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
~ Jose Marti
After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira
~ Christopher Paolini
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
A genius is a man who has two great ideas.
~ Jacob Bronowski
A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
~ Isaac Stern
Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man's work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes.
~ Neal Stephenson
He perfectly fits the profile of a Hut 8 man, who need not know anything except pure math.
~ Neal Stephenson
It took the mind of Albert Einstein, the twentieth century's most brilliant and influential, to show that we can more accurately describe gravity's action-at-a-distance as a warp in the fabric of space-time, produced by any combination of matter and energy.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.
~ Simon McBurney
I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.
~ J. K. Simmons
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
~ Otto Weininger
People have this idea that if you're not brilliant like Einstein, you can't be a scientist. And that's just a myth. He was the one out of a million scientists, but there were 999,999 other scientists who were not as brilliant but who just do great science, as well.
~ Heidi Hammel
Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Determination is as common among men who are dull and foolish as it is among those who are brilliant intellects.
~ Christopher Paolini