Quotes from great people about talent and genius

Quotes about talent and genius

Doing easily what is difficult for others is talent; to do what is impossible for talent is genius. A. Amiel

Genius depends mainly on energy. M. Arnold

Talent is the development of natural inclinations. O. Balzac

Talent in a man is the same as beauty in a woman - just a promise. To be truly great, his heart and character must be equal to his talent. O. Balzac

If you don't believe in yourself, you can't be a genius. O. Balzac

Many great geniuses are ahead of the centuries, some talents are only ahead of the years. O. Balzac

Genius and virtue are like diamonds: they look best in a simple setting. S. Butler

Geniuses do not fall from the sky, they must have the opportunity to form and develop. A. Bebel

The heart is the true lever of all great things. L. Beethoven

A truly outstanding person can only be one who is able to remain an ordinary person in everyday affairs. M. Bontempelli

Natural gifts are like wild plants and need to be cultivated through scientific study. F. Bacon

Genius is nothing other than the gift of enormous patience. J. Buffon

Great people die twice: the first time - just like all people, the second - like great people. P. Valerie

People are like rivers: it is not always pleasant and not always easy to live next door to the greatest of them. G. Van Dyke

Talent, as we know, is a very elusive, volatile, changeable quality; it cannot be tested by algebra and can only be verified by labor, work - the final result of creativity. Vasil Bykov

Great people don't do anything halfway. K. Wieland

The greatness of a country is determined by the greatness of its ordinary citizens. V. Wilson

The name of a man who has accomplished great things inspires more respect than all adjectives. F. Voltaire

Competition is the food of genius. F. Voltaire

Talent is not inherited, otherwise dynasties would reign in art. Often a fool is born from a wise man, and the son of a fool grows up to be a wise man. R. Gamzatov

Talent does not need to be pushed from behind and does not need to be pulled by the hand. He finds his own way and finds himself ahead of everyone. R. Gamzatov

A great era needs great people. J. Hasek

Great men are the table of contents of the book of humanity. K. Goebbel

Talent without genius does not rise much above the level of naked virtuosity. G. Hegel

Thousands of talents only tell about what an era has, but only genius prophetically gives birth to what it lacks. E. Geibel

True greatness is based on awareness of one's own strength, while false greatness is based on knowledge of the weakness of others. I. Herder

Talents are formed in peace, characters are formed amid the storms of life. I. Goethe

A villain cannot achieve greatness. I. Goethe

And a great man is just a man. I. Goethe

The only thing required of a genius is a love of truth. I. Goethe

Genius is vision that grasps at one glance all the points of the vast horizon. P. Holbach

Talent is faith in yourself, in your strength. M. Gorky

Talent develops from a feeling of love for the work, it is even possible that talent in its essence is only love for the work, for the process of work. M. Gorky

Talent is like a thoroughbred horse, you need to learn how to control it, and if you pull the reins in all directions, the horse will turn into a nag. M. Gorky

Anyone who is unable to challenge hatred and rise above ridicule will never accomplish anything great. A. Graf

Genius makes a trail, and talent follows it, but follows it in its own way. K. Gutskov

The greatness of a people is not measured by its numbers, just as the greatness of a person is not measured by its height. V. Hugo

The sprat of the mind, the power of imagination and the activity of the soul - that is what genius is. D. Diderot

The difference between intelligence and genius is that the former is almost always present, while the latter is often absent. D. Diderot

People who are outstanding for their talents should spend their time in a manner that requires respect for themselves and posterity. What would posterity think of us if we left nothing for them? D. Diderot

Every work of genius is inevitably the result of enthusiasm. I. Disraeli

Talent is one-third instinct, one-third memory, and one-third will. K. Dossey

Rarely does one become great who has not found the courage to neglect the knowledge of many unnecessary things. K. Dossey

Madmen pave the way for the sensible to follow. K. Dossey

Talent needs sympathy, it needs to be understood, F. M. Dostoevsky

What is talent? Talent is the ability to say or express well where mediocrity will say and express poorly. F. M. Dostoevsky

Genius is the inability to do nothing. S. Dubos

Genius is the ability to see the invisible, move the intangible, draw what has no form. J. Joubert

The talent of great souls is to recognize the great in other people. N. M. Karamzin

Truly great people are always simple: their behavior is artless and unfeigned. F. Klinger

Character is power over oneself, talent is power over others. V. O. Klyuchevsky

Genius is the pinnacle of practical intuition. J. Cocteau

There are few lives that are beautiful in particular: great people are great in general. L. Labomel

The mind relates to talent as the whole relates to the part. J. Labruyère

False greatness is only insignificance, just as false virtue is hypocrisy. J. Labruyère

Only great people can have great flaws. F. La Rochefoucauld

It is not enough to have outstanding qualities; you still need to know how to use them. F. La Rochefoucauld

Talent is rare. It must be systematically and carefully maintained. V. I. Lenin

Talent is, first of all, a purposeful will to action. L. M. Leonov

What is not true cannot be great. G. Lessing

There cannot be a genius without exceptional energy and exceptional performance. V. Liebknecht

Whoever considers himself a genius ahead of time is a lost person. G. Lichtenberg

He who does not use his talents to teach and educate others is either a bad or limited person. G. Lichtenberg

Geniuses have one privilege - for them life never becomes everyday, as it is for all of us. D. Lowell

Talent is a gift over which a person has control; genius is a gift that dominates a person himself. D. Lowell

Attention, this is the material from which memory is made, and memory is the battery of human genius. D. Lowell

Hegel somewhere notes that all great world-historical events and personalities appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time in the form of a tragedy, the second time in the form of a farce. K. Marx

On a flat plain, every bump seems like a hill. K. Marx

Without effort, talent is like fireworks: it blinds you for a moment, and then there is nothing left. R. Martin du Gard

It is not difficult to rise; It's hard to remain yourself. J. Michelet

Without passion there is no genius. K. Mommsen

You don't have to be the greatest genius to do great things; You don’t need to be above people, you need to be with them. C. Montesquieu

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn out in order to illuminate their age. Napoleon I

Genius is as impossible without taste as character is without morality. J. Nerval

If I saw further than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants. I. Newton

Genius is the supreme ability to concentrate attention on the subject being studied. I. P. Pavlov

One step makes the great funny, but the next step can make the funny great again. T. Payne

How often the greatness of talent is hidden in obscurity! Plautus

Essentially, in order to deeply appreciate the creation of what we call genius, one must oneself possess the genius necessary for such an accomplishment. E. Po

Genius is, perhaps, to talent what instinct is to reason. J. Renard

Truly great are those whose heart beats for everyone. R. Rolland

If there was talent, there would be a position. A. S. Rusetsky

Talent in itself is colorless and acquires color only in application. M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

One must test one's own talent in order to decide whether others have talent. J. Simenon

Genius is the finishing touch, the spire on the building of the culture of nations or an entire civilization. Naturally, the spire cannot hang in the air; it rests on the building, and the building rests on a culturally strong, centuries-old foundation. V. Soloukhin

What is the main sign of real talent? This is constant development, constant self-improvement. V. V. Stasov

A vocation can be recognized and proven only by the sacrifice that a scientist or artist makes for his peace and well-being. L. N. Tolstoy

Genius is not any one talent, it is a combination of many great talents. E. Whipple

To have talent, you need to be sure that you have it. G. Flaubert

The greatest geniuses do not despise those who are lower than them, while other people usually disdain even those who are higher than them. B. Fontenelle

There is something rarer, more subtle, more extraordinary than giftedness. It is the ability to recognize the giftedness of others. E. Hubbard

Great talent requires great hard work. P. I. Tchaikovsky

The truth is the power of talent; wrong direction destroys the strongest talent. N. G. Chernyshevsky

Talent is, first of all, work. A. P. Chekhov

Great opportunities come to everyone, but many don't even know they are there. W. Channing

Honor is more valuable than fame, respect is more valuable than reputation, honor is more valuable than fame. N. Chamfort

Taste is the common sense of genius. F. Chateaubriand

Denying your talent is always a curse on talent. W. Shakespeare

All brilliant people are happy because of their perfection. F. Schiller

Talent works, genius creates. R. Schumann

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. T. Edison

Outstanding personalities are formed not through beautiful speeches, but through their own work and its results. A. Einstein

In every creation of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts. R. Emerson

You can recognize a true genius by the fact that when he appears, all the stupid people conspire against him. R. Emerson

Great men are remarkable more for their scope and breadth than for their originality. R. Emerson

Nothing is as simple as greatness; to be simple is to be great. R. Emerson

Talent must convince the masses of the truth of his ideas, and then he will no longer have to worry about their implementation, which will follow quite naturally after their assimilation. F. Engels

Aphorisms and quotes about talent

Talent is a gift over which a person has control; genius is a gift that dominates the person himself. D. Lowell

Talent is the ability to find your own destiny. T. Mann

Talent is the ability to say or express well where mediocrity will say and express poorly. F. Dostoevsky

Talent is the very thing that doesn’t fit “one size fits all”; the cowlicks always stick out. If you cut off all the curls, everything is cut smoothly - a plane of uniformity. I. Sokolov-Mikitov

Another person's talent seems less than it is because he always sets too big tasks for himself. F. Nietzsche

Talent is a spark of God with which a person burns himself, illuminating the path for others with his own fire. V. Klyuchevsky

Talent is one-third instinct, one-third memory, and one-third will. K. Dossey

Talent is something so mysterious that when everyone knows about the earth, about its past and future, when everyone knows about the Sun and stars, about fire and flowers, when everyone knows about man, they will be the last to know , what is talent... R. Gamzatov

Talent develops from a feeling of love for the work, it is even possible that talent - in its essence - is love for the work, for the process of work. M. Gorky

Talent makes it easy to do what is difficult for others; genius does what talent cannot do. A.F. Amiel

Talent is like a callus on the foot: the bathhouse attendant will cut it off and restore the activity of the foot. V. Klyuchevsky

Talent is faith in yourself, in your strength. M. Gorky

Talent is power over others. V. Klyuchevsky

Talent is like money: you don’t have to have it to talk about it. J. Renard

Talent is, first of all, a purposeful will to action. L. Leonov

Talent is something you have; genius is what masters you. M. Cowley

Talent is what you did, not what you wanted. L. Gurchenko

Talents are not nobility to be passed on from generation to generation. D. Diderot

Talents are formed in peace, characters are formed amid the storms of life. I. Goethe

We guess talent from one single manifestation, but to guess character, it takes a long time and constant communication. G. Heine

The talent of great souls is to recognize the great in other people. N. Karamzin

Everyday talent means being the master of your own destiny (though there is no guarantee that he can be the master of your destiny), being polite and helpful with any, even the most inveterate idiot. A. Ryunosuke

Talent and knowledge are a bright light, without them there is no way out of the darkness. A. Rudaki

The talent of a prose writer comes down to three talents: the talent of a poet, the talent of a historian or biographer, and the talent of everyday life. A. Ryunosuke

The talent of a good prose writer in the choice of media is to approach poetry, but not to go beyond it. F. Nietzsche

True talents do not get angry because of criticism: She cannot damage their beauty, Only fake flowers are afraid of rain. I. Krylov

A talented poet necessarily loves wine, but a drinker is not necessarily a talented poet. Zhang-Chao.

Talent is the ability to understand something about the creator, the ability to see a miracle. Alexander Kruglov

Talent hits targets that ordinary people cannot hit, and genius hits targets that ordinary people cannot see. Arthur Schopenhauer

Only in happy moments does talent manage to make a line from dots, drawn by a genius with one stroke of the pen. M. Ebner Eschenbach

Talent is a condition, not a criterion of creativity. To destroy, you also need talent. Vladimir Mikushevich

Almost everyone is at least a little talented, yes, poets, even carpenters, if they are talented. Poetry is the inner fire of every talent. Fedor Dostoevsky

Talent lies in the ability to see in one moment and as a single structure entire complex dependencies. A perspective opens up that connects whole series of phenomena and ideas into a single existence, into a single image of reality. Alexey Ukhtomsky

The tragedy of talented people is often that they are stupid people. The tragedy of smart people is often that they lack talent. Theodore Oyzerman

Without the intervention of extraordinary talent, everything beautiful remains unrecognized. Joseph Joubert

Each person has his own calling. Talent is knowing it. Ralph Emerson

Talent is a developed natural inclination. Honore de Balzac

If you want to be the master of your talent, serve it. Gennady Matyushov

Talent without ambition is doomed to extinction. Andrey Lavrukhin

Genius is the talent to create something for which no specific rules can be given. Immanuel Kant

In vanity, talent dries up, mediocrity thrives. Vladimir Lebedev

Talent matures through resistance and dies through violence. Boris Andreev

Talent without work never blossoms, and work without talent does not even sprout. Gennady Matyushov

Talent without courage is the greatest sorrow of an artist. Boris Andreev

Great talents are products of painful passion. Victor Cherbullier

Talent is the ability to give work to the soul. Alexander Kruglov

Talent is passion. Vasily Rozanov

That talent has a means, mediocrity has a goal. Valentin Lukyanov

Bad taste occurs in both talent and mediocrity, but in talent when it sows, in mediocrity when it reaps. Gennady Matyushov

Talent is the ability to do something that no one taught us. Alfred Konar

Talent is like lust. It's hard to hide. It's even harder to simulate. Sergey Dovlatov

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent is not in writing one page, but in writing three hundred. Jules Renard

The main sign of talent is when a person knows what he wants. Peter Kapitsa

Labor is already a need of talent, and not the father of talent! Varlam Shalamov

Imagine for a moment that he died and you will see how talented he is. Jules Renard

When we say: “X is talented,” they involuntarily imagine a certain degree of stupidity that X is allowed to have. Karol Izhikowski

Don't look a gifted horse in the mouth. Lazar Lagin

He has a talent for selling talent that he doesn't have. Gabriel Laub

To prove your talent, you have to be very capable. Vladilen Prudovsky

Every talent is eventually buried in the ground. Emil Krotky

Only mediocrity is always in shape. Somerset Maugham

In the creation of material culture, the mediocre worker is first and foremost a worker; in the creativity of spiritual culture, a mediocre worker is first and foremost mediocrity. Grigory Landau

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. Henry Haskins

In the realm of the spirit there are very fertile impotent people. Stanislav Vitkevich

The state of creative impotence, alas, does not prevent one from creating. Leszek Kumor

Talent is the infinite ability to imitate genius. author unknown

Talent is like a thoroughbred horse, you need to learn how to control it, and if you pull the reins in all directions, the horse will turn into a nag. M. Gorky

Talent is our prized tormentor. T. Capote

Talent is like an item pawned in a pawn shop. It is not always possible to redeem, that is, sell. V. Zubkov

Talent is a bird that nests wherever it pleases, sometimes in a deep forest, and sometimes in a trimmed park. G. Senkevich

Talent in a man is the same as beauty in a woman - just a promise. To be truly great, his heart and character must be equal to his talent. O. Balzac

Talent is both blind and too subtle to master life on his own. And the boor, the money-grubber and the scum always accompany him. I. Guberman

As soon as an outstanding talent appears in any profession, immediately all the mediocrities of this profession try to hush up the matter and by any means deprive him of the opportunity and opportunity to become famous and declare himself before the world, as if he were planning an attempt on their inability, banality and mediocrity. A. Schopenhauer

Talent has nothing to do with rank and post, He is interested in salt and essence, And those who are missing stars from the sky, Try to hang them on their chests. I. Guberman

Denial of one's talent is always a guarantee of talent. W. Shakespeare

Great talents incur hatred, just as iron rusts; mediocrity alone has no enemies. J. d'Alembert

Sometimes great talents come from bad qualities. F. La Rochefoucauld