Brilliant Quotes

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No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount… — Walter Russell
What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals? — Benjamin Disraeli
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago… — Hermann Kolbe
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science.… — James Clerk Maxwell
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience — Immanuel Kant
There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power… — Bill O'Reilly
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure. — Aristotle
The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted… — William Butler Yeats
I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves,… — Unknown Author
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is… — Unknown Author
It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering. Job makes it… — Kathryn Lindskoog
Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been devoted… — John Bagot Glubb
My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that… — Tony Visconti
Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents. — Jeff Hawkins
Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next. — Unknown Author
I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant people - teachers… — John Templeton
Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow… — Haruki Murakami
A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where… — John Steinbeck
The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast. — Clarence Budington Kelland

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