Genius Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Said in reference to Ludwig Wittgenstein: "Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

— Eugene Delacroix

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

— Anonymous

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

— Anonymous

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

— James Russell Lowell

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all.…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

— Steve Martin

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

— Anonymous

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

— Margot Asquith