Profound Quotes

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Charles Caleb Colton

Men, Others, Write

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

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph Joubert

Themselves, Create, Useful

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

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
June Jordan

Love, Truth, Beautiful

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?
William Greider

Political, Human, Give

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
Benjamin Carson

Football, Basketball, Same

The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston

Silence, Said, Often

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

Shall, Useful, Understood

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.
Roger Sessions

Sense, Makes, Effort

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
Charles Baudelaire

Time, Space, Moments

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
Toni Morrison

Black, Find, Moment

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

Good, Great, Leaving

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Luc de Clapiers

Thoughts, Clarity

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.
Alanis Morissette

Great, Famous, Matter

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
Kenny Guinn

Home, Permanent, Extremely

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.
Jimmy Carter

Great, Christian, Leader

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Time, Great, Same

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.
Robert Fripp

Music, Another, Point

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Camille Paglia

Music, Art, Future

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Denis Diderot

Nature, Reason, Creative

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Paul Valery

Universe, Plan, Present

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
Luc de Clapiers

Thoughts, Clearness, Ornaments

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.
Anne Lamott

Humor, Time, History

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
Dennis Prager

Education, Great, Mind

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
Billy Joel

Music, Yourself, Human

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.
Mindy Kaling

Life, Mom, Single

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
Harold Pinter

Smile, Hands, View

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
Mario Batali

Family, Greatest, Door

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
Pat Riley

Strength, Mind, State

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