Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Genius is never understood in its own time.
Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.