Profoundly Quotes
435 Profoundly quotes by 373 unique authors
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If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all…
— E. J. Hughes
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The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The…
— Walt Disney
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Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the…
— Ray Kurzweil
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No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered upon…
— Thomas Huxley
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What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers…
— David Hare
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It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly, and grasps more…
— Octavius Winslow
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Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.
— Oliver Sacks
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This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such…
— Jonis Agee
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It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.
— Criss Jami
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Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims…
— George Steiner
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Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.
— Thomas Frank
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Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care…
— Thomas Frank
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Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
— Calvin Coolidge
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I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.
— Evan Davis
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Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
— Joshua Foer
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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully…
— Aldous Huxley
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
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These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and…
— Steve Jobs
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That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far…
— June Jordan
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In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and…
— Paul Klee
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Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in…
— Jonathan Kozol
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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