Profound Thought Quotes

To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.

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

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

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

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

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

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

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

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.

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.