Clouds Quote by Washington Irving

Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to…

— Washington Irving

In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

— Franz Grillparzer

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Genius cannot simply float in the clouds, it must also operate down on earth.”

— Irène Némirovsky

There are some cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world; and the man who has the most genius is twenty…

— Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

— Stanislaw Lem

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“Genius is the ability to leave entirely out of sight our own interest, our willing, and our aims, and consequently to discard entirely our…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.

— Soren Kierkegaard