Brightness quotes
52 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
""Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have."
"Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness."
"God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ."
"He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade."
"I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear."
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""Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness."
"Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness."
"One can make a day of any size"
"Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude!"
"The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness."
"Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history."
"The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become."
"When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord."
"Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself."
"The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter."
"[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend."
"But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness."
"But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone."
"Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts."
"Money refused loose its brightness."
"I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness."
