Profound Quotes · Page 39

Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.

— Jimmy Carter

A lot of the dysfunction that exists underneath the surface of a lot of big business corporations is really profound.

— Adrian Pasdar

I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things…

— John Green

What if i fail?" ...the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear.

— David Meerman Scott

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent…

— Charles Lyell

My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

— Julio Cortazar

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects

— Duncan Sheik

We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed…

— Howard Zahniser

We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth…

— Hugh Hendry

“To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether…

— Edgar Allan Poe

We may experience moments of profound inner peace, a sense of oneness with nature, or a sense of something that is more…

— Thomas Keating

When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable,…

— Mindy Kaling

I feel that the term "new age" is used by basically hostile media to diminish and marginalize a conversation that is very…

— Marianne Williamson

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

People come to have different moral beliefs because they have different non-moral beliefs about relevant facts. People are disposed to believe whatever…

— David Wong

The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than…

— John Polkinghorne

As much as we look up at the stars and know there is more than life on earth, the divinity of dogs…

— Jennifer Skiff

Currently, we allow our political and business leaders to get away with murder. Now is the time to change that. We need…

— Kumi Naidoo

We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life…

— Thomas Berry

So what is the difference between "power thinking" and "positive" thinking? The distinction is slight but profound. To me, people use positive…

— T. Harv Eker

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more…

— Rebecca West

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

— Sherman Alexie

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

— Mariska Hargitay

We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all…

— Fernando Pessoa

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if…

— Dave Sim

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

— Nicole Krauss

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

— Marsha Norman

Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the…

— Rene Konig

Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the…

— Stephen Levine

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a profound mistake to think that every thing has been discovered; as well think the horizon the boundary of the…

— Antoine-Marin Lemierre

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

— Victor Hugo

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

— Virginia Woolf

My father's favorite poem was probably 'Love is patient, love is kind.' It's simply stated but pretty profound. That's how my dad…

— John Carter Cash

As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.

— Frederick Lenz

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

— Stephen Covey