Profound famous quotes
04-17-2025
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
-- A. A. Gill -
A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.
-- Aaron Hoopes -
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.
-- Adam Hamilton -
... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their desire for change and profound democratization of society. A change based on justice, built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace.
-- Adolfo Perez Esquivel -
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
-- Agnes Repplier -
God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
-- Alan Hirsch -
For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.
-- Alben W. Barkley -
People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
-- Albert Bandura -
A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.
-- Albert Camus -
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.
-- Aldous Huxley -
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples and to become fully aware of the profound truth of the following conclusion which the United Nations approved by unanimity four years ago: "Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation".
-- Alfonso Garcia Robles -
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.
-- Alfred Adler -
My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
-- Alfred Jodl -
I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful.
-- Ali Larter -
Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: How should this society work? How should relationships among people work? The exploration is: Who am I, what am I doing?
-- Alison Gopnik -
In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit.
-- Alton Tobey -
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
-- Anais Nin -
Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth.
-- Anandamayi Ma -
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
-- Andre Gide -
Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.
-- Andrei Sakharov -
What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.
-- Andrew Bird -
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.
-- Andrew Schneider -
Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.
-- Ann Druyan -
Movement has the capacity to take us to the home of the soul, the world within for which we have no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature, and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance, we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives. When brought forth from the inside and forged by the desire to create personal change, dance has the profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.
-- Anna Halprin -
'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.
-- Anna Torv -
I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, Lawrence Hope and Charlotte Mew, their despair rate has been very high.
-- Anna Wickham -
You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled.
-- Anne Lamott -
Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.
-- Anne Rice -
And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.
-- Anthony Burgess -
The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.
-- Anthony Daniels -
It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.] It ought not to be one of the forces influencing this or that state. The Church ought to be, if you will, just as powerless as God himself, which does not coerce but which calls and unveils the beauty and the truth of things without imposing them. As soon as the Church begins to exercise power, it loses its most profound characteristic which is divine love [i.e.] the understanding of those it is called to save and not to smash...
-- Anthony of Sourozh -
What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.
-- Art Buchwald -
In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.
-- Art Spiegelman -
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature. We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the foot-print. And Lo! it is our own.
-- Arthur Eddington -
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life.
-- Ashok Gangadean -
I think that the Internet is our most profound and beautiful achievement. It is magnificent. We have the Internet as a layer of our thinking that doesn't control us, we control it, yet we don't have to be aware of it. It will be like a suit that really fits well.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.
-- Baldur von Schirach -
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
-- Barbara Kruger -
Baby, I'm yours until two and two is three.
-- Barbara Lewis -
That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
-- Barbara Mertz -
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
-- Barry Commoner -
The first word you see at the airport is 'terminal'.
-- Beano Cook -
The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A form if it breathes some, if it has some enigma to it, it is also the enigma that is the abstract, I would think.
-- Beauford Delaney -
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.
-- Bell Hooks -
You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
-- Ben Kingsley -
There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
-- Ben Kingsley -
In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.
-- Ben Marcus -
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.
-- Benjamin Banneker -
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical formulae, they find their origin in the divine source of all geometry. Whether I shall have the satisfaction of taking part in their exposition, or whether that will remain for some more profound expositor, will be seen in the future.
-- Benjamin Peirce -
In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.
-- Bill Brandt -
Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.
-- Bill Courtney -
True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
-- Bill W. -
Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
-- Billy Campbell -
Don't be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith.
-- Billy Graham -
His (God) love is not a passing fancy or superficial emotion; it is a profound and unshakable commitment that seeks what is best for us.
-- Billy Graham -
Lonely is the night when you find yourself alone.
-- Billy Squier -
Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.
-- Blythe Danner -
The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode
-- Bob Dylan -
Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
-- Bob Woodward -
That's human nature - we want to completely rewrite history so it can be comfortable. Without getting too profound, I'm pretty sure that's where the invention of the afterlife comes from. "We don't really become worm food. We go to a magical place with bunnies and rainbows."
-- Bobcat Goldthwait -
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
-- Brian Clough -
My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.
-- Brian Tracy -
Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.
-- Bruce Sterling -
It's a matter of timing and of patience. Although it may seem nothing is happening on the surface, there may yet be profound changes occurring a little deeper. Waiting isn't bad.
-- Buck Brannaman -
We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!
-- Burt Ward -
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
-- C. L. R. James -
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
-- C. L. R. James -
Our public spaces are as profound as we allow them to be,
-- Candy Chang -
Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate the taste buds without overloading the belly. Profound, meditative people prefer neutral foods which do not have an assertive flavor and are not difficult to digest, and therefore do not demand too much attention.
-- Carl Friedrich von Rumohr -
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.
-- Carl Jung -
We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.
-- Carl Sagan -
Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
-- Carmen Laforet -
No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.
-- Carol Bly -
Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun -
Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.
-- Casey Stengel -
Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His silence washed over me. I stood, closed my eyes, breathed out the relief that was too profound for words.
-- Charlaine Harris -
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
-- Charles Baudelaire
