Top 347 Brilliance Quotes & Sayings

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

Test match cricket is about individual brilliance.

Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.

A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.

Sheer brilliance needs to be expressed properly.

If someone has something they're really passionate about, that's their brilliance, and my big question is how do we grow that passion/brilliance and/or help them grow.

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

17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of experimental methods in psychology. It shows no disrespect for the brilliance of Descartes or Kant to acknowledge that the psychology which they worked with was primitive by comparison with what is available today in the cognitive sciences, any more than it shows disrespect for the brilliance of Aristotle to acknowledge that the physics he worked with does not compare with that of Newton or Einstein.

I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh.

For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.

The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God.

In order for us [people] to progress, we need brilliance and brilliance isn't fair and it's not polite and we can't grow it. It happens. Genius happens and it doesn't always happen in a zip code where we can access it. Therefore, we kind of need [Internet] not to keep tabs on everybody but we need to give them access to everybody else.

The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.

Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

Extreme people combine brilliance and talent with an insane work ethic.

The hilarity or brilliance of a forwarded link is inversely proportional to the number of people it's sent to.

The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed

Surround yourself with brilliance.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.

Dad was pretty solid. He had great grooves and there was occasional moments of sheer brilliance with fills and things, but in general, the sheer brilliance is the simplicity, how much groove, how much feel he had, all the subtleties that we miss.

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; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.

Some people's brilliance is in their head. A surgeon's brilliance is in her hands. But there are people who have brilliant hearts. They shine right through them.

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

Always remember your brilliance.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

I am often stunned and charmed by the simple brilliance of what children say. But you have to be willing to listen.

Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future

Perform with elan, brilliance and dash - at concert pitch.

I wasn't sure how I'd feel about breastfeeding, but quickly realized its brilliance.

McAvoy's bonkers brilliance will blow you away.

In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything.

Contrary to what many say, Real are a unit. Individual brilliance is always a last resort.

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.

In the middle of my heart, a star appeared, and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance.

For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

Never underestimate someone with Autism, because there could be Brilliance struggling to get out.

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 don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be.

My broken brilliance will shine a light in the darkness.

The brilliance of Adam Scott is that he is so damn funny in a straight man role.

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

Experience trumps brilliance.

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.