Quotes About Depth

Knowledge is high in the head, but the salmon of wisdom swims deep

Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.

Most people seem to believe that if a relationship doesn't last until death, it's a failure. But the only relationship that's truly a failure is one that lasts longe than it should. The success of a relationship should be measured by it's depth, not by it's lenght.

We can know all about God, but not know Him at all. We

I dislike what has happened to the quality of the sound of music; there is little depth or feeling left, and people can't get what they need from listening to music anymore, so it is dying.

He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls...

Nothing is black or white.

Maybe that was why Anna admired people with passion. A person's passion told a lot about who they were. Those without passions seemed to have a hollow place inside. One never knew what grew in that darkness.

A person's passion told a lot about who they were. Those without passions seemed to have a hollow place inside. One never knew what grew in that darkness.

Our deepest feelings are precisely those we are least able to express, and even in the act of adoration, silence is our highest praise.

Fishermen know that if they wish to catch big fish, they must fish in deep waters; if you would catch a large measure of life, you must leave behind you the shallow waters with its many reefs and barriers and launch out into the deep blue waters where the big ones play. To catch the large manifestations of life you must enter into deeper and freer states of consciousness; only in these depths do the big expressions of life live.

Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy; you can only go to the borders; you can look in but you cannot enter.

reasons too deep to be fished.

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

Once I was a scuba diver in a sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

But except in rare circumstances, you can train until you're blue in the face and you'd never be as good as if you just focused on one thing at a time." What we're doing when we multitask "is learning to be skillful at a superficial level." The Roman philosopher Seneca May have put it best two thousand years ago: "To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

By substituting outer symbols for inner memories, writing threatens to make us shallower thinkers, he says, preventing us from achieving the intellectual depth that leads to wisdom and true happiness.

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I Zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

We're none of us, are we, just one thing? I am a policeman, but also a father, a husband for the time being, a nursemaid to a sister who I pray will survive her illness. You are a journalist, a writer, and I don't know what else besides. To look at a person from a single angle is to deform them. Even if Yolanda is guilty...she is also afraid of the dark. And I cannot forget that I put her there.

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

Why is it that looking down seems so much higher than looking up?