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• Talent hits the target which no one else can hit; Genius hits a target which no one else can see.
  • Arthur Schopenhauer a variant of this is actually already sourced on the page:

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. With people with only modest ability, modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent, it is hypocrisy.

• Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
  • Robert Lynd

• I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
  • James Whistler

• The greatest act of genius is humility.
  • Stephen Davey