Accommodate Quote by Franz Grillparzer

“Back to the root of the word “profundity,” it means insightful and understanding.”

— Pearl Zhu

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Profundity often goes past theissue to some deep but uselesstruth.

— Anonymous

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

— George Eliot

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

— William Hazlitt

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

— William Shenstone

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they…

— Edward Young

Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

— William Penn

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and…

— Dennis Prager

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

— Horace Mann

Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

— Michael Bierut

Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

— Edwin Land