Profound Quotes

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

  Carl Sagan

  God, Spiritual, Philosophy

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Hero, Giving

  "Vaclav Havel Dead: The Quotes Of The Man Who 'Lived In Truth'" by Paul Vale, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. December 18, 2011.

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• Not that that's the goal, but sometimes these funny insights can also be deeply profound.

  Ted Alexandro

  Goal, Sometimes, Insight

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all your time being profound.

  Timothy Spall

  Triumph, Littles, Life Is

  Source: collider.com

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• It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Missing, Stories, Half

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.53, Penguin

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• Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

  Nicole Krauss

  Deeper, Complexes

  "Nicole Krauss’ Plot Thickens". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2010.

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• A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

  Charles Dickens

  Cities, Reflecting Upon, Personality

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 3 (1859)

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspiring, Dream, Morning

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

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Life, Simple

  Charles Bukowski (2008). “Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990”, City Lights Publishers

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• The most profound statements are often said in silence.

  Lynn Johnston

  Inspirational, Silence, Said

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• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Mao Zedong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  Ben Kingsley

  Forgiving, Lessons, Wounded

  "Ben Kingsley Talks Oliver Twist". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 20, 2005.

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• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, Being Strong, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 02, 2015

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• Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

  Bobby Scott

  Ice Cream, Debt, Pennies

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• Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Motivational, Business

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 19, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Miracle, Genius, Conviction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Answers, Mystery

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• A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

  Christopher Nolan

  Learning, Curiosity, Live And Learn

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• All great truths begin as blasphemies.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Religious, Atheist, Truth

  Annajanska (1919)

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• The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Change, Home

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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  The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Business, Book, Reading

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• Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Confused, Humorous, Confusion

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