Differences Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

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 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 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

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

— William Butler Yeats

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

— Steve Martin

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

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

— Margot Asquith