Quotes About Brilliance

There can be no excellence without insight.

If something brilliant comes along but I really feel like it's too old for me - that I'm not gonna have the experience it takes - I'm not gonna do it. Even if it's "a big mistake for my career".

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

The cross is the great jewel of the Christian faith and like every great jewel it has many precious facets that are each worthy of examining for their brilliance and beauty.

However gold he shines, do not forget his fire

Se inclinaban hacia él como las flores hacia el sol, ávidos de recibir su brillo. Era lo que había dicho Ulises una vez: él tenía luz suficiente para hacerles héroes a todos.

El gajo de la luna se empequeñeció más y más, pero yo seguí mirándola incluso cuando se me entornaron los párpados para sentir el brillo azafranado de su figura sobre los párpados.

He could cloak a mind and fool another into thinking him invisible. A parlor trick, but one he disdained to use as she glided through the chamber sprinkled with stars against void. The stars were like Eva. They shimmered with a luminous brilliance, but couldn't see their own magnificence.

Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires:

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, kid.

It captured the light and refined it and gave it back in silver incandescence

Be A Famous Person Is Difficult, But Very Difficult To Be The Intelligent Man.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance.

The height of candles may differ, but they yield the same brightness. It's not the matter of your position, but its your ability that actually shines.

Life is like a diamond in the rough, every cut or break only reveals more of the beauty and brilliance we all have waiting to expose.

The most gifted people that I had known had died young.

Que toda inteligencia brille y se extinga en ti durante el espacio de un relámpago.

He told conductors how to conduct and painters how to paint. As Edward said unkindly, he was "the most brilliant failure in history."33

There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness of Creation, God had seen fit to introduce soiling, twisting, rampaging, Man.

It is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.

You may think you see plenty of stars, friend reader, but you are wrong. Night is both blacker and more brilliant than you can imagine, and the sky a glory that puts to shame the most splendid jewels at Renwick's. Up in the mountains, where the air is crisper than the humid atmosphere of Scirland, I beheld a beauty I had never before seen.

Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she'd drown in a wet paper bag. Ian was the kind of smart that scares people.

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.