Profundity Quotes

47 Profundity quotes by 43 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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… — Unknown Author
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
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
Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds. — Edwin Land
There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do. — Bruce Feiler
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
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. — Paul Eldridge
In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace. — Akkineni Nagarjuna
Power is no more than a part, no more than the tip of the iceberg of limitless profundity and sublimate of Karate. — Mas Oyama
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy! — Emile M. Cioran
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
If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness. — Albert Schweitzer
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
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
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
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
You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear… — Harvey Keitel
Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best. — Rene Descartes
If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As you gain inner… — Dalai Lama
Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed. — Francis Picabia
Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

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