Branches Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Steve Martin

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other…

— Franz Grillparzer

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Eugene Delacroix

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

— James Russell Lowell

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

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 is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target which others…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

— Malcolm Cowley