(132 quotes found)
“We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.”
Thomas Carlyle
“There is a profound difference between information and meaning.”
Warren G. Bennis
“The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“It had such a profound affect on me as a 9-year-old that it made me want to make films. The next day I got my parents' Super 8 movie camera and started to do stop-motion animation with a clay dinosaur.”
Peter Jackson
“Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.”
Jonathan Swift
“Obviously, 9/11 was one of the most profound events in our life as a country. Foreigners weren't really aware of how much it touched ordinary people, so I thought I needed to portray that in a way that would make them understand.”
Charles Dumas
“Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself”
Marsha Norman
“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
“I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.”
Edward Tufte
“No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.”
Andre Maurois
