Quotes About Brilliance

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. … The theory of special genius, according to which for instance, it is supposed that a musical genius should be a fool at other subjects, confuses genius with talent. … There are many kinds of talent, but only one kind of genius, and that is able to choose any kind of talent and master it.

I think it's the eyes. No one expects brilliance out of a man with eyelashes like that.

Creativity is the unseen magic that seeps out of a person's soul and touches whatever he or she crafts. Creativity is the glue that seals every newborn project with briliance and flair. Creativity is an always inspiring, sometimes frightening, omnipresent, and strangely powerful gift that's free for the capture. -Patricia Miller, Author

Creativity is the unseen magic that seeps out of a person's soul and touches whatever he or she crafts. Creativity is the glue that seals every newborn project with brilliance and flair. Creativity is an always inspiring, sometimes frightening, omnipresent and strangely powerful gift that's free for the capture.

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

It was shivery and scant. Scared. Skint. But just around the edges it was still scintillant.

Oh no. He was emberant. Incarnadine. He was bright with better bright beneath, like copper-gilded gold.

Second, I was brilliant. Not just your run-of-the mill brilliance either. I was extraordinarily brilliant.

The brilliant trees burned through the heavy mist and he climbed them to pluck leaves of gold, cramming fistfuls inside his sweater, imagining the wealth that would be his.

The lives of Einstein and Schrödinger inform is that even the most brilliant scientists are human

Who will be the next Einstein? Will his ingenious contributions ever be surpassed? Is there anyone brilliant enough to complete his dream of a unified theory of nature?

Plotinus had been born in Alexandria at the beginning of the third century A.D. Like many brilliant critics, he thought he understood what he had read better than the author himself.

David Bowie had grasped a fundamental truth: before you can be a genius, you have to seem like a genius.

Stupidity is not my strong point.

Watching her was like being caught up in the radiance of a star, and in the light, he was revealed.

Take up something that you know will never bring you any returns except pleasure—in other words, allow yourself to live the way brilliant eighteenth century courtesans lived. Don't be afraid of having a decorative life, even if all the decorations come from you.

Her eyes gleamed as bright with genius as any worthy man's