Profound Quotes · Page 12

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

— John Stuart Mill

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.

— Carolina Herrera

I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.

— Don Mazankowski

The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old.

— Black Thought

“He had fallen in love with her emotions, and that was a very profound feeling indeed.”

— François Lelord

“Once a profound truth is seen, it cannot be un seen.”

— Dave Sim

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

— Andre Gide

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

— Delmore Schwartz

The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage,…

— Bryan Cranston

No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a…

— David Brainerd

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

— Rebecca Solnit

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

— Mindy Kaling

“One of the more profound lessons that I've learnt in politics is that everything is related to everything else. Nothing exists in…

— Bernie Sanders

Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.

— Steven Blum

That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.

— Barbara Mertz

I think that [respect for people] is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do…

— Stephen Covey

Profound responsibilities come with teaching and coaching. You can do so much good–or harm. It’s why I believe that next to parenting,…

— John Wooden

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so…

— David Sedaris

I would say that, first of all, if you have the honor of being chosen to produce the Oscars, you usually get…

— Craig Zadan

If we come to the point of retaining a sense of a proportion in the midst of all the smallest as well…

— Helen Luke

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the…

— George Sand

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side…

— Steve Jobs

Equally important is the lack of cultivable land for farmers, a profound problem when you take into account that Afghanistan has always…

— Khaled Hosseini

On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and…

— Anonymous

I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to…

— Sid Fleischman

It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an…

— Christopher Alexander

A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of…

— James Madison

The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by…

— Tana French

Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired…

— Lauren Willig

“You will only find the profoundly inexpressible in profound silence.”

— Bryant McGill

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

— Paulo Coelho

I love black. Anything black transforms lives in a profound way, particularly for women.

— Kenneth Cole

You're a transsexual fighting with a hermaphrodite over a mistress.

— Jerry Springer

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

— Oliver Sacks

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

— Oscar Wilde

I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You must be always true to your principles and profound ideals.

— Anurag Prakash Ray