Genius is eternal patience.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

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.

Patience is eternal genius

"Genius is the ability to leave entirely out of sight our own interest, our willing, and our aims, and consequently to discard entirely our own personality for a time, in order to remain pure knowing subject, the clear eye of the world; and this not merely for moments, but with the necessary continuity and conscious thought to enable us to repeat by deliberate art what has been apprehended and "what in wavering apparition gleams fix in its place with thoughts that stand for ever!

Genius is childhood recovered at will.

which begs a question. What precisely is genius? I believe that genius is not a person but a process, a process in which someone determines to uncover their gift and, for a period, is able to step inside it. The “gift” is a self-explanatory state, and like a prize awarded in a DNA lotto — say, being born into beauty or into wealth — genius is no reason for arrogance.

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

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

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

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