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Quotes About Brilliance

He was a meteor streaking across the heavens
~ Jane Leavy
Indeed, he is glorious in his madness.
~ Jane Lindskold
People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that.
~ Janette Rallison
we're anything brighter than even the sun
~ E.E. Cummings
Though he sought simplicity, he dread dulness. Dimly conscious that he was dull himself, he craved the stimulus of a quicker mind; yet he feared a dull wife less than a brilliant one, for with the latter how could he maintain his superiority?
~ Edith Wharton
You mean, I suppose, that society here is not as brilliant? You're right, I daresay; but we belong here, and people should respect our ways when they come among us. Ellen Olenska especially: she came back to get away from the kind of life people lead in brilliant societies.
~ Edith Wharton
Yesterday her fancy had fluttered free pinions above a choice of occupations; now she had to drop to the level of the familiar routine, in which moments of seeming brilliancy and freedom alternated with long hours of subjection.
~ Edith Wharton
A genius must never be seen struggling to master his craft. He starts out already accomplished.
~ Edmund White
a genius of savoir faire
~ Edward St. Aubyn
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
~ Albert Einstein
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
~ Albert Einstein
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
~ Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
~ Albert Einstein
Every man and every woman is a star.
~ Aleister Crowley
The darkening brilliance of dreams that drowned. Painful Water.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
One simile that solitary shinesIn the dry desert of a thousand lines.
~ Alexander Pope
Çünkü ak?l maddeyi güzelle?tirir bilgi akl? parlat?r.
~ Alexandra Lapierre
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
~ Alfred Adler
Anyone who has watched 'Premam' in theaters would understand the camaraderie between the members on and off the screen and that's what translated to that brilliance.
~ Aishwarya Lekshmi
You are watching what greatness is all about.
~ Brent Musburger
You know that moment in 'The Matrix' when Neo takes the red pill and is plunged into the real world? That's what it felt like when I first read 'Watchmen' - like someone was taking a can opener to my head to make room for Moore's audacious brilliance.
~ Libba Bray
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
~ Walter Pater
Only a genius can play a fool.
~ Michael Rapaport
Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.
~ Henry Winkler