Profound Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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."

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.

...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of all things and verything tends to flow naturally back towards her.

Profound commitment to a dream does not confine or constrain: it liberates. Even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal if you follow it to the end.

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

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

Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.

Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.

She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

Today, more pastors than ever need profound encouragement and rejuvenation.

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.