Magnificent Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old magnificent quotes, magnificent sayings, and magnificent proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

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. Steven Mason
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant. Paul Cezanne
Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. Jeff Hawkins
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. Steven Mason
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. Salvador Dali
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our feelings. Steven Mason
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature. Thomas Mann
The glory that hoes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. Gaius Sallustius
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. Marianne Williamson
In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power. Marianne Williamson
Science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality. They are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible. Steven Mason
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die, whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness. Gilda Radner
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. Robert Lynd
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling. Adrienne Rich
It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life. Paramahansa Yogananda
Some impressive looking books are not as thick as their authors. Writers are often paid by the word, never by the thought. Evan Esar
Some people are impressed only when they are suppressed. Evan Esar
The vast marvel is to be alive for man, woman, flower and beast and bird, the supreme time is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. D.H. Lawrence
The magnificent here and now is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time. D.H. Lawrence
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. Le Corbusier

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