Quotes by category:Profound

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

A. A. Gill

profound civilization america

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

A. S. Byatt

stupid trying profound

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

Abraham Lincoln

marriage matter profound

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

Adam Hamilton

study profound way

... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their desire for change and profound democratization of society. A change based on justice, built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

profound believe people

There is profound responsibility in being Love... more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they'd be crushed by the realization of it.

Adyashanti

impact responsibility profound

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

Agnes Repplier

choices teacher profound

Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.

Ai Weiwei

understanding artist profound

God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

saint eye profound

I'm not one for being too profound, but I will say this. If you wanna have a good time, if you wanna drink a little bit y'know get your sing-a-long on, come and see the Dropkick Murphys and have a good time.

Al Barr

littles profound long

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

Alan Hirsch

impact safety profound

LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.

Alan Moore

home profound reality

For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.

Alben W. Barkley

government profound years

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

Albert Bandura

belief profound people

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

Albert Camus

becoming shapes profound

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Albert Camus

aristocracy real profound

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Albert Einstein

profound life order

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

Albert Einstein

maxwell clerks profound

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

Albert Einstein

clerks profound reality

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

Albert Schweitzer

real mind profound