Curse Quote by Remy de Gourmont Download Open image ““Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.”” — Remy de Gourmont ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Curse Intelligence Malady
“A person with physical beauty lacking insight is like a seashell without pearl.” — Spriha Kant Copy Share Image
“It was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell -- a grain of sand that… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful pearls are not found in oysters, but in enlightened souls.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“A pearl could be lost more easily than found through happenstance, through carelessness.” — Anne Charnock Copy Share Image
“I think intelligence is something you have to work for … it isn’t just given to you….” — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is a gift, not a right. It must be wielded not as a weapon but as a tool for the betterment of others.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I'm going to say something really banal, but intelligence, in itself, is neither valuable nor interesting. Very intelligent people have devoted their lives to… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“La Nebuleuse is a poem of lovely & deep perspective, where, symboloized by artless beings, are seen the successive generations of men following each other uncomprehendingly, almost undiscerningly, so different are their souls, & always summed up, to the moment of their decline, by the child, the future, the “nebula”, whose birth, finally confirmed, brings death. Under its morning clearness,… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share
“The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share
“Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“The man of genius may dwell unknown, but one always may recognize the path he has followed into the forest. It was a giant… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“It is a communion at once mystic & real, in the guise of metal. Money which is liberty, is also fecundation. It is the… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross,… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share
Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him… — Farid al-Din Attar Copy Share Image
Down where I grew up, able-bodied people do that which we believe God created them to do. Work is a blessing; it's not a… — Steve Southerland Copy Share Image
I especially like the songs Hurry Up and The Curse Of Castle Dragon, and I often include them in my live show. — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Mungu akikubariki kipaji chako watu watasema ni laana. Maisha yako ni sawa na mto. Unakoelekea ni baharini. Lakini sasa umefika kwenye mlango wa bahari. Unahangaika upite wapi kufika baharini, ambapo utaogelea kwa kadiri utakavyoweza. Utakapofika baharini, watu, badala ya kusema umebarikiwa, watasema umelaaniwa, badala ya kukuita malaika, watakuita shetani. Mafanikio hayapimwi kwa pesa au mali kiasi gani unayo, mafanikio yanapimwa… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul; and assure yourselves thus much, you do as much as in you lies to put the Lord Jesus Christ from you, and if you go on in this course you begin, you will bring a curse upon you and your posterity, and the… — Anne Hutchinson Copy Share
Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I do but bring Thee rest and calm. Then wherefore dost thou ban And curse me? Since the forming of God's plan I have not hurt or harmed a mortal thing, I have bestowed sweet balm for… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share
Actually,” I said, hesitant to bring it up, “I was thinking along the lines of a curse that can turn you human.” “Or witch?”… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
