How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Since when was genius found respectable?
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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.
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.
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.
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.