The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy. — Ernest Legouve Copy Share Image
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I never felt in competition with anybody in war photography. You're lucky to get your ass in and out again. It's as… — David Douglas Duncan Copy Share Image
Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“We’ve all experienced pondering a problem all day long only to find we receive the solution when forgetting about the problem and… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius. — Katsuki Sekida Copy Share Image
In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room… — John Madden Copy Share Image
Recently, there has been a profound change in how we think about corporate leadership. The 1990s was the era of celebrity leaders:… — James O'Toole Copy Share Image
Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent. — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence,… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
I'm wired with a little bit of self-loathing, not that kind of self-loathing that paralyzes me, but it's there. The things I'm… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let… — Katt Williams Copy Share Image
I don't know how smart I am, but I was a student of the game and I still watch games and still… — Tony DiCicco Copy Share Image
We started an organization that's the only sub-organization of the MacArthur Foundation and we are called the Macarturos. Usually when I win… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind… — William James Copy Share Image
The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image