Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Talent
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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