Profound Thinking Quotes

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

I think about sculpture all the time. I work at it for ten to twelve hours a day. I even dream about it. If as a result I was only to produce something that everyone immediately understood I would't have been thinking very profoundly.

The supreme vice is shallowness.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind.

I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.

The wise do not investigate such silliness.

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

I'm a deep person. I'm not a superficial person at all.

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless.

I've always been into asking the big questions; I'm the last guy out the door at closing time cuz I was sittin' around 'til the wee hours with the other ones who were asking the same things.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.