Brightest Quotes
286 Brightest quotes by 242 unique authors
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
— Samuel Johnson
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
— Walter Scott
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It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.
— Harold Prince
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The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom…
— John Stuart Mill
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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible…
— Mark Twain
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Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
— Charles Dickens
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
— Ian Mckellen
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Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player with the New Orleans Hornets whose deft ball skills…
— Don Yaeger
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When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the…
— Michael Bennet
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Harvard Law provided an opportunity to learn from a faculty that had shaped the laws of our country and helped to change the world around…
— Kenneth Chenault
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In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted…
— Stephen Hawking
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A Cherubim or leader of a kingdom of angels is the fountain or heart of his whole kingdom, and is made out of all the…
— Jakob Bohme
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Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a…
— Jane Goodall
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On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best…
— Ted Cruz
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Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the brightest people in…
— Terry Wogan
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As the sun outshines the brightest star in the heavens, dispels every vestige of darkness and gives life and light to all beings, so, in…
— Max Heindel
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For me, the brightest years at IronPort were without a doubt the darkest years at home.
— Scott Weiss
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I live in Indiana and teach at Purdue University, a wonderful school with some of the brightest students I have ever had the privilege of…
— Roxane Gay
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I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.
— Martin Sheen
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To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our…
— George Ripley
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You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it…
— Paul Tsongas
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The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.
— John Tyndall
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Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based…
— Scott Walker
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If you can attract highly educated people from other parts of the country and keep your own best and brightest, chances are the job creators…
— Mick Cornett
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True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
— Brandi Snyder
Who Wrote These Brightest Quotes
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