Profound Quotes

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Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life. — Mo Yan
I wake up to profound perspective that allows me to celebrate the choices of my moments, of my life. — Mary Anne Radmacher
In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our… — Ben Marcus
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence. — Vernor Vinge
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. — Leslie Stephen
I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact. — Louise Brown
All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission,… — Lewis Nkosi
There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most… — Ben Kingsley
I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and… — Aldous Huxley
The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be… — Marianne Williamson
It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must… — Charles Lyell
Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this… — Johannes Tauler
I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile… — Edward Tufte
It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only… — Asa Gray
That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents. — Barbara Mertz
My dog and two cats are such a vital part of my life. To say that I am their owner doesn't reflect at all the… — Tiffani Thiessen
I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there… — Montel Williams
What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear. — Andrew Bird
Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially… — Paul Berg
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore. — Rob Bell
For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is… — Ellen Forney
I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made. — Jorja Fox
Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago. — Ezekiel Emanuel
Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to… — Noam Chomsky
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of… — Anthony Giddens

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