Profound Quotes

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)
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. View quote
Niels Bohr
Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career. View quote
Lawrence Klein
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. View quote
Spike Milligan
Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone. View quote
Paulo Coelho
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. View quote
Hans Hofmann
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. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you. View quote
James A. Michener
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. View quote
Václav Havel
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. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The most profound statements are often said in silence. View quote
Lynn Johnston
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. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity. View quote
Jonathan Ive
After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly. View quote
Gao Xingjian
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. View quote
George Santayana
Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. View quote
Galway Kinnell
I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things. View quote
Dorothy Parker
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. View quote
Gene Fowler
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. (Robert Conquest)
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
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. View quote
Denis Diderot
Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound. View quote
William Wordsworth
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. View quote
Annie Besant