Profound Quotes

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

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

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

I don't believe virginity is common as it used to be.

Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation

An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.

Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.

Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas.

Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

My eyebrows make a more profound impact on [other] people than they do on me... I just let 'em grow.

People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.

A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.

If you want to be happy, then it is within your grasp. The book you are holding can have a profound impact on your thinking and your attitude and can help you to do more, be more, and achieve more!

I would have made a good pope.

Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.

In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.

Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.

That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?