Quotes About Brilliance

A lesser mind might try to hide its brilliance behind a mask of stupidity. He chooses, instead, to conceal his true wisdom under a flamboyant pretense of erudition that he is pleased to let people think is the best of him.

The sun lowered itself through the roof of clouds, ignited the sea, and filled the big picture window with molten light, so that we did our dealing and dreaming in a brilliant fog.

Luceo non uro; I shine, not burn.

Message Out of the corpse-warm foyer of the sky steps the sun. There it is not the immortals, but rather the fallen, we perceive. And brilliance doesn't trouble itself with decay. Our Godhead, History, has ordered for us a grave from which there is no resurrection.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

Smart people don't have the luxury of playing stupid.

The Most Genius Idea!

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit" seems like the motto not just for Chopra but for the entire conference. Benioff and his philanthropy, the dry ice and fog machines, the concerts and comedians: None of this has anything to do with software or technology. It's a show, created to entertain people, boost sales, and fluff a stock price.

What these healers all had in common was that they were brilliant listeners. They would sit down, take a long patient history, and really get to know their patients," Marci says. "They were all incredibly empathic people who were really good at connecting with people and forming trusting bonds. So that's when I realized that the interesting part wasn't the healing but the listening, and the relationship being formed.

Almost without exception, President Obama begins serious policy discussions by explaining why everyone else is wrong. After he assigns straw men to your views, he enthusiastically attempts to knock them down with a theatrically earnest re-litigation of what you've missed about his brilliance.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.

Astronomers sometimes observe that a star of medium magnitude increases suddenly in size; a star invisible to the naked eye may become very brilliant and visible without any telescope - the appearance of a Nova.

Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents.

No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine," Pa whispers softly.

The explosion of human knowledge has accelerated to the point where even the most brilliant can't cope with it any more. Theories have rigidified into dogma just as they did in the Middle Ages. The leading experts feel obligated to protect their creed against the heretics.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Mani Shanker is brilliant. And working with brilliant people is exhilarating.

Lighting is key for me for every project.

No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.

For me, 'I Can't Make You Love Me' is one of the most brilliantly-written songs ever.