Quotes About Brilliance

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

There is no feature as attractive as a well exercised intellect.

There is no off position on the genius button.

Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

Be the sun and all will see you.

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

Life is perfect, it glows.

Intelligence and genius

The human mind is a brilliant thing. Each person is capable of so much more than they give themselves credit for. I am only one mind amongst billions, though I still wish for my voice to be heard.

Let you light shine from the inside out.

A great mind is just a great mind, and try not to worry too much about what package it's in.

Let colors in Your life Shine like the Sun.

F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had suspense, surprise, and a faint hint of danger; above all, they had the supreme quality of transience, which puts the keenest edge on beauty and makes it touch some spring in the heart which more enduring excellences cannot reach.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.