Differences Quote by John Green

“Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already found out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn;…

— John Green

I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.

— Mara Wilson

There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children.…

— Adora Svitak

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and…

— Miles Franklin

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

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

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

— Immanuel Kant

A prodigy to me is someone that is enormously gifted at a young age - to the point that people can't deny it. I…

— Jamal Crawford

Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.

— Christopher Ricks

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

— Joshua Waitzkin

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

— James Lipton

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

— Charles Baudelaire