Profound Quotes
1328 quotes by 1008 authors
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The brain is the man; its health is essential for normal living; its disorders are surely the most profound of human miseries; and its destruction…
— Unknown Author
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In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,…
— Ivan Pavlov
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It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the…
— Craig Venter
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We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature.…
— Arthur Eddington
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I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their…
— Jay Baruchel
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If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to…
— Marjorie Garber
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Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a whole…
— Martin Nowak
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In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound Chern-Weil…
— Chen-Ning Yang
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People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by…
— Friedrich Engels
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True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and…
— David O. McKay
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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…
— Jonathan Ive
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It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.] It…
— Anthony of Sourozh
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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a…
— Niels Bohr
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The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being
— Igor Stravinsky
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Too many believe that love is a condition, a feeling that involves 100 percent of the heart, something that happens to you. They disassociate love…
— Lynn G. Robbins
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Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of…
— Jack Abramoff
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human…
— Ralph Ellison
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It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those…
— John Quincy Adams
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates…
— Michael Leunig
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Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.
— Peter Cosgrove
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