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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
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 a word too often tossed around in musical circles.
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
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.
Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.