“Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius. It is dangerous for an army to be led by veterans; for on the other side God may place Napoleon.”
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana
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“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Journal

“The talent works, the genius creates.”
Attributed to Schumann in: The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 112, 1913, p. 811

"The Modern Drama" in Art, Literature and the Drama (1858).

Alfred Binet (1903). "La creation litteraire. Portrait psychologique de M. Paul Hervieu", L’Anne´e psychologique (10), p. 3; As cited in: Carson (1999, 361-2)

“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”


“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work…”

“One might say: Genius is talent exercised with courage.”
Man könnte sagen: „Genie ist Mut im Talent.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 38e