Profound Thoughts Quotes

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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  Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  Carl Jung

  Funny, Depression, Witty

  Quoted in the Observer, 19 Jul 1975.

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• Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Profound, Clarity, Clarity Of Thought

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• Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Profound, Style, Ornaments

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Reflexions et Maximes, 4, p. 758-59, 1922.

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• Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Inspiration, Profound

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• The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

  William Arthur Ward

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Ideas

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Real, Profound, Mind

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• 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.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, Book, Heart

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• As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Men, Ideas, Profound

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• Helen Rosevere was a British medical missionary in the Congo years ago during an uprising. Her faith was strong and her trust was confident, yet she was raped and assaulted and treated brutally. Commenting later, she said, "I must ask myself a question as if it came directly from the Lord, 'Can you thank Me for trusting you with this experience even if I never tell you why?'" What a profound thought. God has trusted each of us with our own set of unfair circumstances and unexplained experiences to deal with. Can we still trust in Him even if He never tells us why?

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Strong, Years, Uprising

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• Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

  Charlotte Mason

  Profound, Simplicity, Language

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to have enough space to, I don't know, think thoughts. I mean, I just - I don't know that I'm capable of having an exciting, profound thought every week that's worth a column.

  David Plotz

  Mean, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?

  Cassandra Clare

  Blood, Profound, Cubes

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1510, Simon and Schuster

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

  Albert Camus

  Profound, Shapes, Becoming

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.114, Vintage

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• There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting as a detective's deductions or hunches. The simpler the words in which a thought is expressed the more stimulating its effect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Reading, Profound, Detectives

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Profound, Details

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• After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  God, Reading, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2090, Delphi Classics

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

  Elizabeth Kim

  Profound, May, Eternal

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