Profound Quotes

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
Bill Gates

Great, Learn, Interested

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, War, Lies

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
Shirley MacLaine

Anyone, Ourselves, Existence

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Sigmund Freud

Dreams, Crazy, Often

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.
Barack Obama

Children, Win, Friends

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard

Music, Beautiful, Heart

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.
Johnny Depp

Live, Reason, Child

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus

Courage, Real, Based

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens

Human, Wonderful, Fact

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas Merton

Loneliness, Here, Vision

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
Spike Milligan

Father, Influence, Lunatic

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
Richard Bach

Change, Home, Once

When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?... Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices... people are struggling with those profound issues.
Hillary Clinton

Life, End, Decisions

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

Successful, Justice, Political

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

Life, Respect, Become

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine

Deep, Him, Hidden

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Warren G. Bennis

Teacher, Found, Mediocrity

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski

Simple, Genius, Might

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr

Truth, May, Another

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
John Ruskin

Ignorance, Sensation, Involves

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
Vaclav Havel

Life, Hope, Human

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Virginia Woolf

Life, Happiness, Bored

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
Richard M. Nixon

Nation, Times, Direction

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

Hope, History, Somebody

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life, Danger, Depressing

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Marcel Proust

Love, Woman, Small

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men, Sick, Between

Buying is a profound pleasure.
Simone de Beauvoir

Pleasure, Buying

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life, Good, Great

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

Peace, Everybody, Looks

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