Profound Wisdom Quotes

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

The great thing about James Baldwin and his writing is that it's still fresh every time you pick it up. That's also the sad thing about his writing sometimes, too.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order.

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.

Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.

The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode

Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.

Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I did not have the right to deny them on the grounds of reason; above all, I realized that these answers alone can form a reply to the question of life.

So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.

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

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

The essence of profound insight is simplicity.

For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

My cat knows the meaning of life, but has no interest in sharing the secret.