Profound Quotes

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

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

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.

On becoming a mother, I sort of feel like every kid is my kid. I really do get that sense in a much more profound way that we all are a global community and we all have to band to try and give the children of our this generation whatever tools we can to go out into this world and try and make it a better place.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.