Application Quote by William Hazlitt

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

— Eugene Delacroix

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

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

— Steve Martin

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Helene Hanff

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

— Anonymous

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 is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

— Francis Herbert Hedge

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

— Margot Asquith

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

— Malcolm Cowley