Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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.
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.