Profound Thought Quotes

#1. Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

Charlotte Mason

#2. Free and profound thought, which strives towards the comprehension of life, and a complete scorn for the foolish vanity of the world - man has never known anything higher than these two blessings.

Anton Chekhov

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

Kim Elizabeth

#4. Happiness," he says, "is the price of profound thought."
"Who's that quote from?" I ask.
He winks. "Me.

Alice Oseman

#5. You've always mistaken my absolute self-assurance for profound thought.

Dean Koontz

#6. That's what any decent mind ought to do for its owner when she lets it off the leash - just go bounding away into the long grass and bring back a really profound thought, laying it at her feet all furry and palpitating. C'mon now. Hey los'!

Jan Struther

#7. Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.

Paul Valery

#8. I want to have enough space to, I don't know, think thoughts. I mean, I just - I don't know that I'm capable of having an exciting, profound thought every week that's worth a column.

David Plotz

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

Albert Camus

#10. I never liked the term mystic as applied to someone or a way of thought. It covers something very profound and an awful lot of nonsense passes as profound thought.

Louis L'Amour

#11. There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting as a detective's deductions or hunches. The simpler the words in which a thought is expressed the more stimulating its effect.

Eric Hoffer

#12. When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable, and nobody liked to be around a miserable person, and two, everything that I thought was so profound, everyone had already dealt with.

Mindy Kaling

#13. There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word. He wasn't a fraud. He was Robert De Niro.

Nick Hornby

#14. Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.

Joe Biden

#15. Up until I started working with him, I had thought that music was a nice thing that I enjoyed and liked making, but it wasn't a serious healing modality. What Dr. Sacks has proven is that music is actually a quantifiable, profound healing modality.

Moby

#16. In the darkness of the bedroom I thought of that, although thinking in the darkness is not advisable: things seem bigger or more serious in the darkness, illnesses more destructive, the presence of evil closer, indifference more intense, solitude more profound.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#17. For years I have been accused of making snap judgments. Honestly, this is not the case because I am a profound military student and the thoughts I express, perhaps too flippantly, are the result of years of thought and study.

George S. Patton

#18. I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

Sarah Dessen

#19. I looked at what he built, and to me it explained the stars.

Stephen King

#20. He thought about explaining math's beauty to her, the elegance of an equation, the simplicity within the complexity. The thrill of touching truth and knowing it as ancient and unassailable, as permanent and profound.

Katie Kennedy

#21. All along I've thought the best way to keep out all the voices in my head directing my life this way and that was to stay busy, to distract my brain from itself, but it's this profound silence that releases me from worry.

Rachel Friedman

#22. Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth.

Anandamayi Ma

#23. Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.

Eckhart Tolle

#24. I want to thank you for the profound joy I've had in the in the thought of you.

Rosie Alison

#25. You saw everything inside me, every pathway to my heart. Every thought, profound to petty. You laughed away the bad and celebrated the good.
To be known, really known, is the essence of love. To live without love is a shadow life.

Suzanne Hayes

#26. Evaluating and altering the way you use the word "we" in speech, thought and writing is the simplest, yet also one of the most profound changes you can make in your everyday life to secede psychologically from the global collective and become a barbarian.

Jack Donovan

#27. Today the lack of faith is an expression of profound confusion and despair. Once skepticism and rationalism were progressive forces for the development of thought; now they have become rationalizations for relativism and uncertainty.

Erich Fromm

#28. The economic times we are facing ... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

Alistair Darling

#29. Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.

Ram Dass

#30. Well-directed thought is a learned skill. To manifest an intention requires laserlike focus, full sensory visualization, and a profound belief.

Dan Brown

#31. There is a view in some philosophical circles that anything that can be understood by people who have not studied philosophy is not profound enough to be worth saying. To the contrary, I suspect that whatever cannot be said clearly is probably not being thought clearly either.

Peter Singer

#32. If we lost everything except for the clothes we stood up in, would we turn to each other and think....How lucky we really were?

Jacqueline Kennedy

#33. All great acquisitions come from voluntary thought" was Elizabeth's guiding principle. She would not cultivate any motive for learning in her students besides curiosity, claiming that study for the sake of reward or in fear of punishment produced "superficial rather than profound" knowledge.

Megan Marshall

#34. Bear in mind you have a life to live. There is an incredible loss. There is a profound grief. And there is, in the end, after a long time and more work than you ever thought possible, a time when it gets easier.

Marya Hornbacher

#35. Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.

Emile M. Cioran

#36. In the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

Madame De Stael

#37. Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world.

Martin Amis

#38. In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.

Hans Kramers

#39. The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

Sylvia Plath

#40. I wasn't sure I would ever be able to deal with the world. It seemed too big and demanding and there was no fixed syllabus.

Jerry Pinto

#41. I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

Noah Baumbach

#42. What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

Dallas Willard

#43. Doing nothing was much more productive than people thought; Jackson often had his most profound insights when he appeared to be entirely idle. He didn't get bored, he just went into a nothing kind of place.

Kate Atkinson

#44. With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.

Dervla Murphy

#45. An enthusiasm for Poe is the mark of a decidedly primitive stage of reflection. Baudelaire thought him a profound philosopher ... Poe was much the greater charlatan of the two, as well as the greater genius.

Henry James

#46. The capacity for unclouded enjoyment, she thought, does not belong to irresponsible fools; an inviolate peace of spirit is not the achievement of a drifter; to be able to laugh like that is the end result of the most profound, most solemn thinking.

Ayn Rand

#47. Well, we actually never went around. We worked together, struggled through the corporate maze, shared our dreams, and, somewhere along the way, we came closer to each other. At the end, we touched each other's heart. The impact was profound, much more than I thought it was initially.

Sandhya Jane

#48. Getting struck by lightning changes your electrical makeup, so that every time you're struck, you're just that much more likely to be struck again.

Maris Black

#49. Life is a gift, but living is a choice.

Debasish Mridha

#50. The human mind delights in finding pattern - so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.

Stephen Jay Gould

#51. At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

Albert Camus

#52. Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened.
"Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

Umberto Eco

#53. I am not what you are. I am only what I can see. I am me.

Debasish Mridha

#54. Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.

William Wordsworth

#55. True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

Bill Wilson

#56. Robert Allen said something quite profound: No thought lives in your head rent-free.

T. Harv Eker

#57. Life abides between life as if it were an island amidst its own ocean

Wasif Ali Wasif

#58. Always lend a helping hand, for one day- YOU might be the one reaching for it!

E.N. TOWNER

#59. Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

Ralph Waldo Emerson