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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.

 - 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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle