A genius is just a mentally ill person with an audience.

Now, these men weren’t idiots. They were geniuses who paid a high price for their genius because the rest of their thinking was other-world. A genius is someone who travels to truth by an unexpected path. Unfortunately, unexpected paths lead to disaster in everyday life.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.

A genius is the man who can do the average thing when everyone else around him is losing his mind.” — Napoleon

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Most geniuses — especially those who lead others — prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities.

Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time, has pointed the way. He was shown of what sacrifices people are capable once they have found the right way. His work for the liberation of India is a living testimony to the fact that a will governed by firm conviction is stronger than a seemingly invincible material power.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Genius is childhood recovered at will.