Depth of Thought Quotes

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

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

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

It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring.

Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the anima. When the reverie is truly profound, the being who comes to dream within us is our anima. For a philosopher who takes his inspiration from phenomenology, a reverie on reverie is very exactly a phenomenology of the anima, and it is by coordinating reveries on reverie that he hopes to constitute a "Poetics of reverie". In other words, the poetics of reverie is a poetics of the anima.

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Sometimes in L.A., we get accused of being superficial. I feel like Portland's the opposite, in that there's a greater depth of character, and sense of self.

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.

What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. ... What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.

We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

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

A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.