Quotes About Depth

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

We have largely traded wisdom for information, depth for breadth. We want to microwave maturity.

This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificence; history to his patriotism; posterity to the depth and compass of his mind.

Falsafah tidak pernah terlepas daripada sejarah. Kadang-kadang saya terfikir ada bagusnya jika saya terus menyata kebenaran tentang sesebuah soalan kepada pelajar saya lalu mengakhiri syarahan. Tetapi pendekatan membelakangi sejarah sedemikian rupa cenderung menghasil kedangkalan falsafah.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

To extract a child from a shallow grave seems at first, to the casual observer, a ludicrously simple matter.

Hay personas que no tienen poesía en sus almas.

save that her eyes spoke too much mind for any one to think she could belong to those who had no souls.

People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realise.

Las personas somos complicadas. Hay mucho más en nuestro interior de lo que se percibe a simple vista.

She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.

I should know better than to try and measure the breadth and depth of love by its noise and dramas but there are times that I crave it, as if it's proof that love is alive.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is only skin deep. Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep.

Look beyond what you see with your eyes and peer into the day with your heart.

William James claimed that almost all of us use only the tiniest fraction of our potential.11 Only under certain circumstances of constructive stress or in certain states—great love, for example, or religious ardor, or the courage of battle—do we begin to tap the depth and richness of our creative resources, or the tremendous reserves of life energy that lie sleeping within us.

It was not for Halliday to judge another's personal relationships: everyone in the city was strange, if you looked deeply enough.

to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

You know what he taught me? He taught me to feel more. He taught me to give myself over to feelings. And now that's all I have. I'm swamped by them. I can't breathe because I feel so damn much.

When a man and woman were in love and spent their time kissing and babbling nonsense, they really didn't get to learn much about each other. They came to learn every line in each other's face, every trick of breathing and kissing and sighing – but nothing else, nothing real, nothing on the inside, about which knowledge was paramount.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

For a moment he saw everything in her eyes: a love that would last their entire lives, a vulnerability that would never go away, and, where he was concerned, a deep selflessness that made her the most wonderful, funny, intelligent woman he knew.

Erano sette ore che essi conversavano, e non s'erano detti nemmeno la settima parte delle cose che avevano da dirsi.