Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oswald Chambers

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

Michel de Montaigne

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Christian Lous Lange

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.

George Santayana

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

Neale Donald Walsch

It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth.

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.

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.

Emily Dickinson

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

Henri Nouwen

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

Hod Lipson

When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way.

Helen Reddy

I'm still an embryo with a long long way to go.

Jonathan Swift

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

Oliver Sacks

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

Malcolm Gladwell

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

Michael Pollan

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

Sherman Alexie

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

Neil Diamond

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson

To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

Socrates

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

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.

Jake Gyllenhaal

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

James Russell Lowell

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

Leslie Stephen

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

George Gilder

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

Luc de Clapiers

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

Luc de Clapiers

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Nikolai Gogol

...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.

Nicole Krauss

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

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,