Profound Quotes
1328 quotes by 1008 authors
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Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
— Therese of Lisieux
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Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God in all situations…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one…
— George Bernard Shaw
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
— Warren G. Bennis
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It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our…
— Harry S. Truman
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More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've always come to…
— Barack Obama
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Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer…
— Eric S. Raymond
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Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.
— Robin Lim
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Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than…
— Madeleine Albright
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If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every…
— PJ Harvey
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Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared…
— James Madison
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same…
— Billy Joel
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But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a…
— Harold Klemp
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I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before,…
— Albert Einstein
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Al Davis is a legend and his contribution and influence on the game of football, the National Football League, and the Oakland Raiders has been…
— Amy Trask
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The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A form…
— Unknown Author
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