Profoundest Quotes

61 Profoundest quotes by 49 unique authors

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the… — Giuseppe Mazzini
All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed. — John Updike
What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed… — Octavio Paz
I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers. — Jacquetta Hawkes
If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that… — Kedar Joshi
Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the… — Theodore T. Munger
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. — Charles W. Chesnutt
All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers. — Leopold Kronecker
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest… — Franz Marc
Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations. — Edward McKendree Bounds
We owe the animals our profoundest apologies. Defenseless and unable to retaliate, they have suffered immense agonies under our domination that most of us have… — Will Tuttle
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. — Octavio Paz
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass… — Bertrand Russell
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great… — Clive Barker
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice. — D. H. Lawrence
He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so… — Mark Helprin
Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with… — Wendell Berry
So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me… — Bill Bryson
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way… — Robert Frost
The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable. — H P Lovecraft
The profoundest distances are never geographical. — John Fowles
Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three… — Peter Kreeft
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is… — Albert Einstein

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