William Hazlitt Quote

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.


Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners (ed. 1878)


Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.