Otto Weininger Quotes

I believe we are all geniuses-each in our own unique way.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

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

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.

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

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

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

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

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

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

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

A genius is the one most like himself.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

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

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

I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.