Quotes About Brilliance

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

You're born to shimmer, you're born to shine, you're born to radiate

The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.

The most stupendous miracle in all music.

Mozart is the incarnation of music.

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

One by one, the electric lights ringing the lawn were ignited. Each one, as it burst into brilliance, erased a constellation from the evening sky.

When the Earth basks in the Sun's brilliance, you'll find me there with my arms spread wide and my face with a smile.

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

Shine like the sun in darkness.

The brightest candles burn out faster

To illuminate the world, let your love shine like the morning sun.