Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
~ Luc De Clapiers
Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature.
~ Michael Pollan
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
~ Pat Riley
We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.
~ Kim Elizabeth
Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.
~ David Lynch
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
~ Charles Bukowski
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
~ Moshe Safdie
The implications of Americans devoting their lives to fast food are more profound than the fact that our kids aren't eating well. There are real repercussions that we need to know about and think about.
~ Ruth Reichl
Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.
~ Jon Katz
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
~ Niels Bohr
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
~ Albert Camus
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
~ Stephen Covey
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
~ Ivan Turgenev
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
~ Rob Bell
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
~ Harold Pinter
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
~ Shirley Maclaine
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
~ Galway Kinnell
Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
~ Henri Nouwen
There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
~ Kenny Guinn
