Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Work, India, Genius

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.725, Library of Alexandria

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Differences, Genius, Stones

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2013). “Shakespeare: A Lecture”, p.31, Library of Alexandria

• Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Clinton P. Farrell (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Tributes and miscellany”

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