Profound Quotes - page 2

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future. (Alfred Jodl)
In order to change a way of thinking, it is necessary to undergo profound internal changes and to witness profound external changes, especially in the performance of our duties and obligations to society. View quote
Che Guevara
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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. View quote
Warren Bennis
If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. View quote
Leslie Stephen
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. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? View quote
Augustine of Hippo
... the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound. View quote
Melody Beattie
My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life. View quote
Mindy Kaling
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. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle. (Ned Vizzini)
My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself. View quote
Rachel Kushner
Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?' View quote
Alison Gopnik
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. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is. View quote
Lesley Garrett
We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way. View quote
Phil Lesh
I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about. View quote
Richard Marx
If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people. View quote
William Petersen
Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me. View quote
Wilfred Burchett
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)
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis. View quote
Rollo May
As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy - a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake. View quote
Frank Wilczek
In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. View quote
Kofi Annan