The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
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 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.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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.
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
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