Issues Quote by Mason Cooley

Profundity often goes past theissue to some deep but uselesstruth.

— Anonymous

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

— Pearl Zhu

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

— Paul Eldridge

Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.

— Rene Descartes

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

— Edwin Land

When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in…

— Antoni Tapies

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

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

— Bertrand Russell

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

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

— Roger Goodell

Some things that are true are not very useful.

— Boyd K. Packer

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

— Barton Gellman