There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.