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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
— Sri Aurobindo
Talent will take you to the mountaintop. Genius will take you to the edge of the universe.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Genius is power, talent is applicability.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius begins where talent ends.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
— William Hazlitt
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Perseverance is the bridge between talent and genius.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Talent works, genius creates.
— Robert Schumann
It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.
— Zach Braff
There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope
Skill gives you the sky,
talent gives you the stars,
and genius gives you the universe. — Matshona Dhliwayo
talent gives you the stars,
and genius gives you the universe. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Talent should minister to genius.
— Robert Browning
Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never
— Lord Byron
The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.
— Charles M. Schwab
Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
— Jack Kerouac
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
— Truman Capote
I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.
— Daphne Du Maurier
A person of genius should marry a person of character.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Talent and success are cousins;
genius and excellence are twins. — Matshona Dhliwayo
genius and excellence are twins. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
— Francis Herbert Hedge
Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...
— Albert Einstein
Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.
— Truman Capote
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.
— Lev Vygotsky
Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius ...
— Margot Asquith
Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
— Hugh Leonard
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
— Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
— Bernard Williams
It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Talent imitates, but genius steals.
— T. S. Eliot
Bend the rules only if you have learned them; break the rules only if you have mastered them.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.
— Darlene Love
My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.
— Albert Einstein
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
— Charles Saatchi
Genius points the way, talent takes it.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
— Edmond De Goncourt
I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.
— Martin Ritt
I probably have genius. But no talent.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Talent seeps out of a man;
genius bursts out of him. — Matshona Dhliwayo
genius bursts out of him. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
— Andre Breton
We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius, and
— Arthur Conan Doyle
There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
— Honore De Balzac
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
— Louisa May Alcott
Your mind is a book; God is the pen.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
— V.S. Pritchett
Probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
— John F. Kennedy
A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
— Isaac Stern
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
A touch of genius is better than a punch of talent.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.
— Ronald Reagan
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.
— Maude Adams
Talent only gives an imperfect image--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of Genius remain unruffled.
— Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott
Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.
— George Sand
Genius is talent exercised with courage.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
... because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
— Louisa May Alcott
Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.
— Janet Flanner
A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
— Steve Martin
Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.
— Oscar Wilde
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
— Arthur Helps
Don't Mistake Lack of Talent for Genius
— Peter Steele
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.
— Maxim Gorky
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
— J.B. Priestley
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge