Quotes on Talent And Genius

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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

He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.