Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

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

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

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

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Passion is like genius: a miracle.

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

Giving calls for genius.

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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

Talent works, genius creates.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Most geniuses are weird.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.