“Mystery is not profoundness”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong”
Edward O. Wilson
“No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.”
Andre Maurois
“Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.”
Jan Morris
“Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.”
Jonathan Swift
“It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.”
Van Wyck Brooks
“We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.”
Thomas Carlyle
