“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.”
“Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.”
“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”
“Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.”
“Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.”
“True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.”
“Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.”
“We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”
“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.”
“Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.”
“The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.”
“Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.”
“The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.”
“Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.”
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.”
“It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.”
“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”
“Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.”
“Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.”
“It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.”
“The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.”
“Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.”
“Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.”
“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.”
“Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.”
“Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.”
“The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.”
“A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.”
“Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.”
“The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.”