Acumen Quote by Herman Melville

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

— Ellen G. White

“Truly barren is a secular education. It is always in labor, but never gives birth.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

“Give me, if you will, prayers; Or let me know dryness, An abudance of devotion, Or if not, then barrenness. In you alone, Sovereign…

— Teresa of Ávila

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

— Thomas Carlyle

These are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man.

— William Carlos Williams

“I wasn't there yet, I wasn't finding joy and gladness in my barrenness, but I believed I would. I believed He would make my…

— Natalie Brenner

“When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is generally something wrong with her sexual nature. Barrenness itself conduces to a certain virility of taste;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there…

— Aristotle

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

— Louis Pasteur

Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

— Spencer W. Kimball

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

— Anonymous

There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its…

— Henry Ward Beecher