Profounder Quotes

#1. If then, Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages, could not read the simplest peasant's face in its profounder and more subtle meanings, how may unlettered Ishmael hope to read the awful Chaldee of the Sperm Whale's brow? I but put that brow before you. Read it if you can.

Herman Melville

#2. From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

Jessica Jackley

#3. "Out, damned spot!" That is the true cry of human nature. That stain cannot be removed without blood and that which is infinitely more, and deeper, and profounder, and more terrible than blood, of which blood is but the symbol - the suffering of Deity.

G. Campbell Morgan

#4. Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.

Herman Melville

#5. There is a solitude of space.
A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself
Finite infinity.

Emily Dickinson

#6. The theologian can ask far profounder questions because he knows more about God; by that same knowledge he knows that there are depths that he will never know. But to see why one cannot know more is itself a real seeing; there is a way of seeing the darkness which is a kind of light.

Frank Sheed

#7. The worse things are, the more they play philosopher. The more obvious the nonsense, the profounder their thoughts. The more lawlessness there is, the more laws. The more widespread the chaos, the more insistent their love of symmetry.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#8. I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the profounder the person, the greater the nation.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. Science has "explained" nothing; ... the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness ...

Aldous Huxley

#10. Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

Joyce Cary

#11. Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

J.I. Packer

#12. He had no thought of how it was before he came to the farm. His memory of those times was like a house where no one lives and the furniture has rotten away.

Truman Capote

#13. Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

Michelangelo

#14. I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.

Khaled Hosseini

#15. The flame of the diya, or lamp, reminds us that light will ultimately triumph over darkness

Barack Obama

#16. Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.

James Taylor