Some are born brilliant, some have brilliance thrust upon them — and others cower in the dark crying, “It burns! It burns!

There is no such thing as a person without brilliance.

If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn’t leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time. And he would certainly not leave fallible, sinful...

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, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

To write about him is to write about Greatness. To discuss him is todiscuss Intellectual Brilliance. To think of him is to think of Modesty,Simplicity and Lucidity. To remember him is to remember Nationalism atits...

You are the forward edge of life’s advancement; in this moment in time you are the finest expression of life’s brilliance.

Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.

The sun’s glow had given way to a brilliant twilight that colored the great mountains with violet and orange rivers.

Devote yourself to living completely and sharing your unique brilliance.

My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer.

The power of a person’s mind is in the strength at the depth of his heart through out the length of his life.

External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped – it eclipses internal shine.

Your opinion of your mental capacity may be great, but if your idea of intelligence is crude, your intelligence-producing thought will also be crude, and can produce only crude intelligence. It is therefore evident that...

Uncommon success is found on the spiritual plane; you can’t get there through common convention or following others. Hard work is not enough; many work slavishly-hard for little reward. Intelligence is insufficient; how many educated...

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.

The definition of brilliance is redoing failures different each time and expecting successful results.

Could I but acquaint the world with Robert G. Ingersoll’s humanity, with his ideas and his sentiments of love, patience and understanding, a renascence would automatically take place that would give life and living on...

Now more than ever the world needs your brilliance, your voice, your unique imagination, and your particular genius.

Unconscious people are spiritually stunted, effectively encasing their unique brilliance in a psychological tumor.

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

Be a magnet of LOVE. BE the unique you with your brilliance! Open your heart wide , radiate with its beams and shine on to others, from the inside out.

I existed on my own terms. I was different my entire life. Some called me divergent, wild, crazy, unpredictable and unconformed—an apostate to the rules of the majority. I called myself God’s creation and found...

No institution of learning of Ingersoll’s day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his own intellectual accomplishments, but also for his influence upon the minds of the learned...

Live so fully and so brilliantly that your pain diminishes in your aliveness.

vacation” means because what you’re doing is what you want to do and a vacation from that is anything but a vacation — that’s the state of mind of somebody who’s doing what others might...

I would be dreadfully remiss not to think that God would painstakingly craft something an intimately ingenious and inexplicably intricate as my life, and that by virtue of such sheer brilliance I should not examine...

Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and...

Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of about ideas. The old civilisation talked about the sin of gluttony or excess. We talk about the Problem of...

Your power and brilliance is the the most awesome force life could muster.

Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

[He] was a brilliant man. People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brilliance reminds them of their own mediocrity. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.

The proliferation of creative power can transform the world for all of its inhabitants.

The modern habit of saying “This is my opinion, but I may be wrong” is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit...

There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands.

When you are clearly-defined, deliberate with intention and operating at your highest level, your brilliance cannot be hidden, diminished or overshadowed.

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, ‘We will not be dictated to,’ and went off and became stenographers.

For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations….Most of...

It is in the darkest hour, when we are faced with our deepest most wrenching fears, that we are given the greatest strength. The choice is whether we succumb to the fear or rise with...

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.

I am now comfortable with standing in the beauty of my status as an unrepeatable and singular expression of humanity. I’ve become unwilling to discount the pieces of my soul that make me whole and...

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing...

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.