How do you define genius?

[blackh0le]

like most people here i think a genius is a person who has the ability to think for him/her self and make his/her own decisions not to care about what other people feel or think about him/her. he/she is not restrained by society to do certain things and follow a life pattern like every body else.

[11001001]

Originally posted here by Remote_Access_
There's a thin line between genius and insanity. When I hear the word genius, one man comes to mind. No, not me ...Albert Einstein. He was a genius among geniuses.
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R_A_- What about Tesla?
IMHO, he was more brilliant than Einstein. He dicovered ways to *almost* make electricity from the air.

[smirc]

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

~ Bob Dylan

Genius is a combination of three 'I's: intellect, imagination and intuition

~ Professor A.C. Bharadwaj, Allahabad University, India

What is the difference between genius and stupidity? Genius has limits.

~Albert Einstein

Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

~Thomas Alva Edison

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

~George-Louis De Buffon

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

~Gertrude Stein

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.

~Robert Henri

Genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

~Jane Hopkins

Genius, the power which dazzles human eyes, is oft but perseverance in disguise.

~H.W. Austin

Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

~Former President Calvin Coolidge

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, and they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent... it is but the newspaper of a century, or perhaps of a hundred centuries.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

~Georg Lichtenberg

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it.

~Unknown

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

~Winston Churchill

[Tedob1]

edison's iq test = 56

[Chippunk]

thin line between genius and insanity - got to love james bond movies