Currents Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

— William Butler Yeats

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

— James Russell Lowell

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Steve Martin

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

— Eugene Delacroix