Profound Quotes
1328 Profound quotes by 1008 unique authors
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped…
— Virginia Woolf
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The truth is more important than the facts.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.
— Greg Graffin
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All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
— Mitch Albom
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If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
— Confucius
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Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a…
— Confucius
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
— Carl Sagan
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The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode
— Bob Dylan
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Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.
— Paulo Coelho
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
— Herman Melville
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Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
— Mother Teresa
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I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is…
— Tom Waits
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Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death
— Homer
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Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions…
— Cornel West
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That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able…
— Douglas Adams
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I would have made a good pope.
— Richard M. Nixon
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Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is…
— M. Scott Peck
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you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is…
— Victor Hugo
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The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood.…
— Margaret Sanger
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Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
— Confucius
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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
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