Ambitious Quote by Louisa May Alcott

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

— Janet Flanner

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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 is power, talent is applicability.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.

— Helene Hanff

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

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

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

— Eugene Delacroix

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

— Anonymous

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

— James Russell Lowell

Talent works, genius creates.

— Robert Schumann