Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Talent works, genius creates.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.