Intelligence Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Steve Martin

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all…

— Thomas A. Edison

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which…

— Joshua Reynolds

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

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

— Edmond de Goncourt

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without…

— Napoleon Hill

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

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It…

— Patricia Polacco

Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement and who…

— Dean Keith Simonton