Quotes About Brilliance

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

To be asked to perform a new 'Talking Head' was beyond any expectation. The matchless brilliance of Alan Bennett's words coupled with the extraordinary wisdom of Nick Hytner's direction made this a thrilling and quite simply unforgettable experience, and I'm enormously grateful.

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius.

Knowledge is the beauty of a diamond, but wisdom is the shining reflection of that beauty.

Ignite the light within you, it will make your world brighter.

One bright star is better than a thousand dull moons.

It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.

Light cannot hide its beauty, not even in darkness.

Geniuses' steps take you higher than talent's leaps.

You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence.

We have brilliance in the world. What the world needs is your heart.

Mission Ignition' was really brilliant. Each show was made in a day. It wasnt staged, we made each show in a day, and it was fairly intense.

Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy.

Theory is meaningless to a genius.

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.