Profound Quotes

The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.

Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.

Love for children is the enormous untapped power that can wake us up to the profound changes we need to make if we’re to have a future worth living.

Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.

The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.

I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.

I've come to believe that total nakedness, that is absolute transparency, that is utter and unfettered and profound visibility, is the only way that we can truly love. Anything less, is self-defense.

As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences and love for the most challenging among us.

Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I’ve learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor.

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.

The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.

Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

Branding is a profound manifestation of the human condition

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity.

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.

You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism