John Taylor Gatto Quotes

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

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.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

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

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

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

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Organization cannot make a genius out of a dunce.

I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.