Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Perseverance, Accomplishment, Talent

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.14

• What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Knowing, Ideas

• Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Giants, Genius, Talent

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1859). “Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life”, p.162

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

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Genius, Talent, Fountain

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