Quotes About Profound

a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.

Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind.

Any writing which has influenced the thinking and the lives of innumerable people is important.

Doctor Winter was a man so simple that only a profound man would know him as profound.

Joseph was elderly and lean and serious, and his life was so complicated that only a profound man would know him to be simple.

the story of mankind's quest for profound comprehension of his commitment to his fellow man and to the earth he inhabits.

So when we make contact with the domain of being in the meditation practice, we are already, in a profound sense, beyond the scarring, beyond the isolation and fragmentation and suffering we may be experiencing.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

She comes out with things, you know, that keep you pondering for hours. There's really something quite Pythian about her!

the more permanent colour of the flowers themselves, with the utmost profundity, evanescence, and mystery—with a quiet suggestion of infinity

My solitude has become even more profound, and I know nothing of the sun but what your letter tells me. It has thus been a blessed messenger, and contrary to the proverb, this single swallow has made for me an entire spring.

But if no reply came from Morel, he could no longer sleep, he no longer knew a moment's peace of mind, so many in number, indeed, are the things that we experience without knowing them, and the profound inner realities that remain hidden from us.

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.

No ocean as deep and wide as the human soul.

Putting pen to paper is a mystical way to access your most profound truths.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

It's kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound. And it had a deep impact, and I think it still does.

Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion and he will be frenzied.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees...

The wisdom of a human...is boundless.