Brilliance Quotes

217 Brilliance quotes by 190 unique authors

The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul. — B.K.S. Iyengar
But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance;… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away… — John Ralston Saul
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his… — Samuel Johnson
Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments… — Mario Batali
It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1,… — Ted Dekker
Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if… — Jane Asher
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar,… — Hayden Carruth
There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We want brightness, ecstasy,… — Frederick Lenz
The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence… — Tom Robbins
Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation… — Louis Nizer
Perform with elan, brilliance and dash - at concert pitch. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even… — Robert Genn
Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many… — Beverley Nichols
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane... — Alexander Pushkin
There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that… — Frederick Lenz
Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board. — Carroll Smith
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,… — Criss Jami
Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who… — Criss Jami
If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Like I said about Seinfeld and Chris Rock, they're a great combination of brilliance and hard work. [But] there are people who are brilliant and… — Sarah Silverman
When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual… — Pope Francis
I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that… — Stephen Fry
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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