Top Profound Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Profound quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of John Betjeman
Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound
- John Betjeman
Collection: Profound
Image of Richard John Neuhaus
One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.
- Richard John Neuhaus
Collection: Profound
Image of Tad Williams
After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?
- Tad Williams
Collection: Profound
Image of Catherynne M. Valente
Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
- Catherynne M. Valente
Collection: Profound
Image of Nadia Boulanger
It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.
- Nadia Boulanger
Collection: Profound
Image of Vera Nazarian
Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are.Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.
- Vera Nazarian
Collection: Profound
Image of Patrick Stewart
Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence. I promise to do so, and to invite other me and allies to do the same.
- Patrick Stewart
Collection: Profound
Image of Buck Brannaman
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
Collection: Profound
Image of M. Scott Peck
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.
- M. Scott Peck
Collection: Profound
Image of Renata Adler
Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.
- Renata Adler
Collection: Profound
Image of J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Collection: Profound
Image of Devendra Banhart
It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.
- Devendra Banhart
Collection: Profound
Image of Galen Beckett
when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
- Galen Beckett
Collection: Profound
Image of David Brainerd
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.
- David Brainerd
Collection: Profound
Image of Tom G. Palmer
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.
- Tom G. Palmer
Collection: Profound
Image of David Markson
In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.
- David Markson
Collection: Profound
Image of Richard Pryor
What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.
- Richard Pryor
Collection: Profound
Image of Michael Behe
In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.
- Michael Behe
Collection: Profound
Image of Roger Sessions
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.
- Roger Sessions
Collection: Profound
Image of Bill Brandt
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
Collection: Profound
Image of David Meerman Scott
What if i fail?" ...the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear.
- David Meerman Scott
Collection: Profound
Image of Alexandra David-Neel
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
Collection: Profound
Image of Martin Nowak
Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a whole and what is good and desirable for an individual. That conflict can be found in global problems such as climate change, pollution, resource depletion, poverty, hunger, and overpopulation.
- Martin Nowak
Collection: Profound
Image of Bill Courtney
Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.
- Bill Courtney
Collection: Profound
Image of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like to propose to you that we show our complete condemnation, our most intense revulsion, and that we show profound solidarity with the victims.
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Collection: Profound
Image of Lynne McTaggart
Nature has a drive for wholeness and has created us only in relationship like one giant superorganism. It's a fact there is a connection between atoms and all of us in relationship with each other and with our environment. In all of our societal relationships there is a bond so profound and intricate that it's impossible to say where one thing stops and another thing begins. So you see this mirrored in every aspect, from the subatomic world to the world that we're more familiar with. So competition ends up being a false creation in our society.
- Lynne McTaggart
Collection: Profound
Image of Eric S. Raymond
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.
- Eric S. Raymond
Collection: Profound
Image of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Beauty is that to what the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Collection: Profound
Image of Kip Moore
I'm not afraid to talk about God and it's something I have a faith in. But I feel his presence more in those really profound, quiet moments of solitude. I can't seem to get those as much around here in Nashville, so I go to seek them out. Iceland is probably the closest I ever felt to it. That place did a lot for my soul.
- Kip Moore
Collection: Profound
Image of Benjamin Peirce
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
Collection: Profound
Image of Sherman Alexie
When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
- Sherman Alexie
Collection: Profound
Image of Tim Hughes
Some of the most remarkable and profound worship encounters I've experienced have happened in churches with no production, no lighting, no exciting visuals or amplification, sometimes with not even a single musical instrument.
- Tim Hughes
Collection: Profound
Image of Zosia Mamet
For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they're true. I feel things intensely, and that sometimes brings me on wave of profound sorrow.
- Zosia Mamet
Collection: Profound
Image of Andrew Revkin
Every time someone reads a story about the politics poisoning the global warming stuff it makes it feel like a political story, meaning it's Us and Them, instead of what it is: this profound challenge we face given our energy norms right now, the fuels of convenience toward something new. No matter what the politics are, it's still an enormous transformation that has to take place.
- Andrew Revkin
Collection: Profound
Image of Leston Havens
Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.
- Leston Havens
Collection: Profound
Image of Jim Palmer
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.
- Jim Palmer
Collection: Profound
Image of Elizabeth Kim
Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.
- Elizabeth Kim
Collection: Profound
Image of Richard Curtis
No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.
- Richard Curtis
Collection: Profound
Image of Ted Alexandro
Not that that's the goal, but sometimes these funny insights can also be deeply profound.
- Ted Alexandro
Collection: Profound
Image of Montgomery Clift
James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.
- Montgomery Clift
Collection: Profound
Image of Sylvia Nasar
A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.
- Sylvia Nasar
Collection: Profound
Image of Alix Kates Shulman
When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.
- Alix Kates Shulman
Collection: Profound
Image of Stephen Crane
Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.
- Stephen Crane
Collection: Profound
Image of Timothy Spall
Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all your time being profound.
- Timothy Spall
Collection: Profound
Image of Timothy Spall
You can't live your life in a state of profundity, because you're never going to get anything done, and you're just profound.
- Timothy Spall
Collection: Profound
Image of Clay Walker
I just wanna live until I die.
- Clay Walker
Collection: Profound
Image of Pascal Bruckner
Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inventory of one's psyche, considering each aspect in detail. No matter: we have to say 'fine' out of politeness and civility and change the subject, or else ruminate the question during our whole lives and reserve our reply for afterward.
- Pascal Bruckner
Collection: Profound
Image of Lars Svendsen
Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.
- Lars Svendsen
Collection: Profound
Image of Paul Anka
There were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out.
- Paul Anka
Collection: Profound
Image of Clement Greenberg
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility.
- Clement Greenberg
Collection: Profound