Profound Quotes

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I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense. — Emily Dickinson
She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound… — Mario Puzo
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. — Benjamin Franklin
Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is… — Edgar Allan Poe
I desired dragons with a profound desire. — C.S. Lewis
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual… — Albert Schweitzer
There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no… — Toni Morrison
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured. — Andre Gide
And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever… — Walt Whitman
To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds… — Friedrich Nietzsche
An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that inspiration. He who… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred… — Confucius
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of… — Michael Pollan
Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to… — Ram Dass
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! — Douglas Adams
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. — Michel de Montaigne
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds. — Mark Twain
After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and… — Tad Williams
There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth.… — Douglas Adams
True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a… — Toni Morrison
The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but… — Aldous Huxley
My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any… — H. L. Mencken
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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