Ability Quote by Patricia Polacco

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

— Immanuel Kant

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

— Ambrose Bierce

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without…

— Napoleon Hill

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

— William Hazlitt

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which…

— Joshua Reynolds

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

— E. V. Lucas

“Genius is a word that is very loosely used nowadays. It is ascribed to persons to whom a more sober judgement would be satisfied…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

— Charles Baudelaire

Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.

— Bing Gordon

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

— James Lipton

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

— Joseph Joubert

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer…

— William Gilmore Simms