Simple Profound Quotes

#1. What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Barack Obama

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

Charles Bukowski

#3. Running through the maze of life, you come across profound ambiguities and complexities. Yet the essence of living a meaningful life remains simple- following your heart and pursuing your life purpose.

Roopleen

#4. I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

Mike Royko

#5. The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart

Viktor Schauberger

#6. Hope is at once both simple and profound. It is hope that binds Heaven and earth. Hope is the bridge between Heaven and earth.

Sri Chinmoy

#7. There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.

Douglas Adams

#8. Ken & Mark weave a simple, compelling tale that contains profound truths. If only we all knew The Secret.

Laurie Beth Jones

#9. Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be
silent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

Kedar Joshi

#10. Sometimes, simple faith could lead to profound peace.

Amish Tripathi

#11. And was the next word I lost, probably because it was so close to her name, what a simple word to say, what a profound word to lose.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#12. Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

George Bernard Shaw

#13. I begin and end with her. It's as simple and as profound as that. Our worlds have entwined and wrapped around each other's completely. They've shaped into something new and fixed and whole. There is no longer her story or mine, but now and always, only ours.

Laurelin Paige

#14. [On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial and so profound, that any attempt to present it as a unified, consistent whole, to enclose it within a rigid frame, inevitably tempts one to cheat or to falsify.

Iris Origo

#15. There was no darkness so profound as the simple daylight they left me in, nor any noise so soul-cracking as the silence left when they departed.

Various

#16. We cannot begin to define God's knowledge. We know, simply and profoundly, that nothing is hidden from Him or incomprehensible to Him.

Elizabeth George

#17. Simple but very profound truth, How can you let God down when you weren't ever holding Him up?

Lysa TerKeurst

#18. My first big break came when I was five years old. It's taken me more than seventy years to realise that. You see, at five I first learnt to read. It's that simple and it's that profound.

Sean Connery

#19. There is the devastatingly simple, yet profound, moral dilemma, which underlies the book: is it better for a man to choose to be bad than to be conditioned to be good?

Anthony Burgess

#20. Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts and fashion his own system of ultimate truth. All its emphasis rests upon two extremely simple and profound principles, love of God and love of man.

Joseph Fort Newton

#21. The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.

Michael Heizer

#22. Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#23. Stress often comes from speed. So slow down, be simple, enjoy the profound beauty of the little flowers.

Debasish Mridha

#24. The ordinance of confirming a new member of the Church and bestowing the gift of the Holy Ghost is both simple and profound.

David A. Bednar

#25. By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe.

Laozi

#26. Wisdom is simple but profound.
Folly, even when complex, is stupid.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. Ancient wisdom offers ... a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'

Wayne D. Dosick

#28. Real love is an expression of the best of you and others. It's moving, profound and essentially very simple at the same time.

Annette Vaillancourt

#29. Yes, we need to change, but simple changes can have profound impacts.

Louie Psihoyos

#30. The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?

Wesley J. Smith

#31. I hear the beating of the waves you carry in your chest
That simple and that profound
This love that binds us
Folded in pieces inside love's soul.

Rachel Thompson

#32. The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life.

Henepola Gunaratana

#33. The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.

Charles Hodge

#34. Elle had never felt so cherished, so wanted. How in the world a simple kiss could relay such feeling, she'd never know. But kissing him was anything but simple. It was profound. And somehow, she knew when this night was over, her very soul would never be the same.

Jessica Lee

#35. A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.

Aaron Hoopes

#36. For all its complexity, however, astrology remains fundamentally simple. It offers a time-honored system of symbols that sum up key aspects of human life while providing profound insights and practical guidance.

Anne M. Nordhaus-Bike

#37. When the enemies of Spire Albion were in the walls, the great-great granddaughter of old Admiral Tagwynn had refused to have a good lie-down, and it was as simple and as profound as that.

Jim Butcher

#38. If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.

Russell Simmons

#39. Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.

Charles Bukowski

#40. What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

Charles Baudelaire

#41. The unasked-for gift of being with people at the end of their lives...is a simple but profound appreciation of the here and now of life itself.

Sue Halpern

#42. You have been created by God and for God, and someday you will stand amazed at the simple yet profound ways He has used you even when you weren't aware of it.

Kay Arthur

#43. Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.

Chriswell Freeman

#44. The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas can be restated by rote; but profound ideas must be recreated by will and imagination.

Robert Grudin

#45. Eating, too, has been turned away from its true nature: want on the one hand and superfluity on the other have troubled the clarity of this need, and all the profound, simple necessities in which life renews itself have similarly been obscured.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#46. It has been said that the question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is so profound that it would occur only to a metaphysician, yet so simple that it would occur only to a child.

Jim Holt

#47. Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.

Douglas Harding

#48. I don't have enough knowledge or wisdom to say anything profound to people all over the world. But maybe a simple "I love you," as corny as it may sound, shows them that I am willing to be compassionate, generous, and peaceful with them.

Richard Brancatisano

#49. The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.

Ernest Hello

#50. Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

Paulo Freire

#51. That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin.

Edward Lawrie Tatum

#52. The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

Patricia Deegan

#53. Sport is quite a simple thing. It is play, and in play, people of all ages find the chance to engage their most profound emotions-love, fear, excitement, disappointment, anger and joy.

Timothy Shriver

#54. Sometimes the most profound experiences of our lives start with an act so simple and careless that we hardly think about it - like tossing a small stone that causes a massive avalanche.

Richard Paul Evans

#55. We all of us have a reputation, something we are known for, and sometimes it may be different from what we would like to be known for. At the core of this is the simple but fragile heart - our integrity - which is always under challenge, under tests both trivial and profound every day of our lives.

Peter Cosgrove

#56. Even the most complicated and the most profound message can be given in a simplest way! Be like a light beam entering into a dark sanctuary: Be clear, be pure, and be simple!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Eckhart Tolle