Since when was genius found respectable?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term 'genius' was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.