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Profound Quotes by Joseph Joubert
- How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.
- Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become…
- It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
- How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
More Profound Quotes
- Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it… — Saint Augustine
- The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you… — Richard Bach
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac
- I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments… — Mario Batali
- There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire
- Buying is a profound pleasure. — Simone de Beauvoir
- Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be… — Warren G. Bennis
- Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. — Annie Besant
- The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound. — Mayim Bialik
- There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. — Ambrose Bierce
- Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. — Ambrose Bierce