Quotes About Profound

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

Great poets are all philosophers too profound to systematize their ideas. Inside every dark visionary is a being of insidious reason waiting patiently for his host to die. From the cleft of the creative arises the categorical flower.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

As for 'Great Expectations', it is up there for me with the world's greatest novels, not least as it vindicates plot as no other novel I can think of does, since what there is to find out is not coincidence or happenstance but the profoundest moral truth.

I like complicated characters.

I am a very complicated person.

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.

I think the most significant change in my life is the decision to do a series. An hourlong dramatic television series on a broadcast network swallows you and chews you up and refuses to spit you out. You're making a decision that's going to be a profound and significant impact on the practical aspects of your life.

It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization.

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

There are days when everything changes, and this was one of those days.

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Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.

I think sanity, however, is the most profound moral option of our time.

How symbolic the smallest things can be, the flotsam and jetsam of lives

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

That sounds like one of those clever things people say that mean precisely nothing!