Attributes Quote by Edwin Land

The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,'…

— James Bryce

With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it…

— Robert Musil

There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

— Edwin Land

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating…

— Pema Chodron

In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself…

— Geoffrey Fisher

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

— Nigel Kennedy

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?...…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence…

— Wynton Marsalis

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…

— Ron Lamothe

Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your…

— Virginia Woolf

I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

— Steve Coogan