Profound Quotes

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.

Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.

Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.

There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.

My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.

It has been said that the question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is so profound that it would occur only to a metaphysician, yet so simple that it would occur only to a child.

Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.

Getting married has shifted my focus, in such a profound way. You just realize, "Oh, I can't be so selfish anymore. There's someone else."

I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.

We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things.

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.

We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind