"But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound."
- Herman Melville
"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will besilent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied."
- Kedar Joshi
"God knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd now because we live in a very different culture, a different time period. They had their problems and we have ours. Go..."
- Criss Jami
"As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in ..."
- Sigmund Freud
"The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membr..."
- Vera Nazarian
"It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head."
"To me, many of what seemed to be Bible contradictions only pointed to the grace of Christ. It is not so much a rule book on how to be holy as it is a prophecy of the One who can make you holy. In this..."
"Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth."
- Marty Rubin
"Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficu..."
- Edward Carpenter