Napoleon’s definition of a military genius was, “The man who can do the average thing when all those around him are going crazy.

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.

A genius could be anybody that he wants, but ingenious is always one person at that time.

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

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

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 see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.

What mean we by genius, but the power of accomplishing great things without the means generally reputed necessary to that end?

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

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

"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!

A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.