Quotes About Profundity

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

And those who come together in the night-time and are entwined in a cradle of desire are carrying out a serious work in collecting sweetness, profundity and strength for the song of some poet yet to come, who will rise up to speak unutterable pleasures.

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

dialogue led participants not to certainty but to a shocking realization of the profundity of human ignorance. However carefully, logically, and rationally Socrates and his friends analyzed a topic, something always eluded them.

I feel like I've had a really great intense relationship with every single Director I've ever worked with. I can't say there's one that hasn't been deep and profound in its own way.

unintelligence, just some more of the rubbish of fantastic Pagan superstition. It will therefore come as a surprise and shock if an intelligent re-examination forces us to realize that in profundity of knowledge and semantic skill in portraying it ancient perspicuity so far surpassed our own in this field of anthropological science that we

In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.

More attention and thought goes into naming a character in 'Call Of Duty' than all the work that can go into certain movies. Blood and sweat and tears go into figuring out the names because they are so important. The call signs say a lot about you. The brotherhood that's evoked by the name is quite profound.

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

Para tener un CI alto, uno tiende a especializarse, a tener pensamientos profundos. A evitar toda banalidad.

When I came to the West and heard about knights slaying dragons, I was shocked. In Tibet, the dragon symbolizes incomprehensible profundity.

Nada es pequeño para una inteligencia grande.

One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.

Calling God "Father" (Abba) is not unique to Jesus,15 and neither is it a revelation of a religious profundity that Judaism had not yet comprehended (what can be more intimate than Hosea 1–2 or 11:1–4?). Instead of its being unique, "Father" is characteristic of Jesus but would not have been at all offensive in Judaism.

the meaning of Adam's work sat on its surface, that he had no opinion of his subjects, good or bad: "Cullen's abjectness is not luxury at ease; his emptiness is not profundity; when he scribbles, his poor syntax is not a form of epigram. His crudeness is what it is – unabashed … He's a bottom-feeder, none too pernickety about taste. Every pond needs one, especially the cesspools of popular culture.

If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

La sintesi è possibile solo quando c'è la conoscenza, altrimenti diventa superficialità.

In the last analysis, ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

To be sure, we are still aware that thinking calls not only for intelligence and profundity but above all for courage.

My meditation Is my life's Intensity-profundity- Experience-delight

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Perhaps when you're young you think that something must be profound just because it is difficult and you don't have the self-confidence to say 'this is just nonsense