Differences 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

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

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

— Paul Valery

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

— James Russell Lowell

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anna Brownell Jameson

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

— Margot Asquith

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson