Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

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

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

Genius is knowing where to stop.

A genius is someone with the ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

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

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

Genius is intellect constructive.

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

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.