-| genius |-
Genius
differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the
latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating
everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how
beautiful.
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Franz Grillparzer, Austrian author
Honestly speaking, till date
there have been so many times when I have confused the two... I knew its literal meaning
but often times didn’t use the word appropriately and after reading
this I don’t think I’ll ever make that mistake again.....
I have been recently reading
about the semantics of words and related stuff...it’s very
interesting and absorbing ... all these things are so intertwined with so many
aspects of day to day life - that i would have never thought about it
twice ... I also think that at times words are so slippery ...
so unreliable... one wrong word and things can go for a toss.. but
then it is also important that the opposite person knows the word and its true
meaning ... for example, when I was in school it never made a
difference if one called me 'talented' or 'genius' ... It meant one and the
same to me... I know better now...
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius
