Profundity Quotes
47 quotes by 43 authors
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You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and…
— Hsu Yun
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than…
— Henry Fielding
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All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on…
— George Jean Nathan
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The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it…
— Lewis Thomas
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I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with an effusiveness and…
— Ron Lamothe
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us…
— Umberto Eco
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I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and…
— Daniel Libeskind
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
— Edwin Land
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There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.
— Bruce Feiler
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So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
— Paul Eldridge
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In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
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Power is no more than a part, no more than the tip of the iceberg of limitless profundity and sublimate of Karate.
— Mas Oyama
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Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
— Emile M. Cioran
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Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves…
— Pema Chodron
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If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
— Albert Schweitzer
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When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only…
— Oswald Chambers
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Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to…
— David Lehman
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One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually…
— Dan Winters
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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Who Wrote These Profundity Quotes
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