Profound Quotes

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.

On becoming a mother, I sort of feel like every kid is my kid. I really do get that sense in a much more profound way that we all are a global community and we all have to band to try and give the children of our this generation whatever tools we can to go out into this world and try and make it a better place.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for.

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful.

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.