Gene Wilder Quotes

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

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

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.

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

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

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

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

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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

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

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

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.