Quotes About Brilliance

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

Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

How language is webbed in the senses. Out of sand-blazed brilliance into quirky minds such as his, into touch, taste and fragrance. He thought he'd linger just a bit longer, let the bath take total hold, ease and alleviate, before he put on clothes and entered the complex boxes where people do their living. Nothing fits the body so well as water.

I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.

He smiled at the brilliance of his perception, and Brunetti, too, smiled, delighted to hear it.

He was a marvelous talker, a magical talker, and I wish I were able to give a better idea what he said, but it is impossible for a mediocre intellect to render the speech of a superior one

La nuit froide est un frisson sur sa peau, la nuit brille dans l'obsidienne de ses yeux, la nuit fourmille de lumières, d'étoiles, de feux rouges, de noms au néon magnifique et étrangers, de noms dangereux, de noms qui rugissent du fond de la vie»

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

As is often the case, the sole person not left speechless in awe by my brilliance is my own beloved wife.

And there's a thin line between genius and insanity, isn't there?

He was one of the greatest of our kind, and the drops that fell from him were golden, smearing his back with a terrible beauty.

It was their fate, as Prometheus had told me, the story that they all shared. No matter how vivid they were in life, no matter how brilliant, no matter the wonders they made, they came to dust and smoke.

boy. I have a shallow, pyrotechnic, unchanging brilliance with which I awe the peasants, but there is no solidity, no basic texture, hence no capacity for creative growth.

language so lucid and graceful that it sparkled

that was exactly what I thought Owen Meany was, "brilliant but preposterous." As time went on—as you shall see—maybe not so preposterous.

My excellence confused them

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift— "THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, MORAL AND DIVERTING

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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. ALBERT EINSTEIN

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

White is too brilliant to be seen, so yellow is its filter, its costume, revealing that pure light has not only brightness but emotional resonance and depth.

Men are naturally unequal. They are unequal members of one family, in which one can be brilliant, another mediocre, and another an imbecile. Hereditary substance is a mystery.

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

Still constant is a wondrous excellence.