# Most Genuinely Profound Quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963 "2014-06-29T21:55:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/21 "2014-06-30T15:13:11Z")
“… if you don’t want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don’t.” - John Fugelsang No, not Jimmy Carter. [Jimmy Carter on Helping the Poor | Snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/carterpoor.asp#hJ9Sl2zCM2HaAAJT.99) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/22 "2014-06-30T15:20:18Z")
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!”, but “That’s funny…” --Isaac Asimov ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/23 "2014-06-30T15:23:43Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Heh–I was coming in to post exactly this one. It guides me both as a teacher and as a dad to little girls. When I googled to find out the exact wording, guess which message board and which poster came up as the top result. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/24 "2014-06-30T15:56:24Z")
> [@](#): > > The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever almost made me die. David Foster Wallace. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/25 "2014-06-30T16:10:26Z")
A universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind capable of understanding it. (Cambridge cosmologist John Barrow) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/26 "2014-06-30T16:12:17Z")
“A woman hopes that the man she loves will change. A man hopes the woman he loves will never change. Both are invariably disappointed.” -attributed to all the usual suspects from Oscar Wilde to Mark Twain to Winston Churchill… but I haven’t found any documentation that any of them ever said anything like this. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/27 "2014-06-30T16:24:44Z")
“Nope. I wish it wasn’t raining.” Unknown mechanic to a young Jerry Seinfeld, who asked if the downpour he’d ridden through made him wish he’d bought a car. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/28 "2014-06-30T16:34:55Z")
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” - Frank Herbert ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/29 "2014-06-30T17:05:43Z")
“Don’t think 'cus I understand, I care” - Sneaker Pimps ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/30 "2014-06-30T17:09:02Z")
A man don’t know how big a shadow he’ll throw til he stands up. - Gil Favor ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/31 "2014-06-30T17:13:32Z")
Somewhat related, my favorite Kahlil Gibran story: > [@](#): > > A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again–and he said, “A mouse will do.” ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/32 "2014-06-30T17:22:19Z")
''It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs." Jim Harrison–_The Road Home_ ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/33 "2014-06-30T17:48:52Z")
**Tanstaafl** ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/34 "2014-06-30T17:51:41Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > **Tanstaafl** My 6th grade math teacher had this on the chalkboard for the entire school year, and finally explained it on the last day of school. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/35 "2014-06-30T17:57:14Z")
“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”–Ben Franklin “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”–Groucho Marx ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/36 "2014-06-30T18:13:32Z")
One more: “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”–Eleanor Roosevelt ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/37 "2014-06-30T18:29:55Z")
“No act of kindness, however small, is wasted.” Attributed to Aesop, but could precede him. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/38 "2014-06-30T18:54:10Z")
“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” Attributed, apparently incorrectly, to Leonardo da Vinci. Not really profound I guess but if you are a pilot, it sure nails it. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/39 "2014-06-30T19:01:38Z")
“For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.” Matthew 25:29 ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/40 "2014-06-30T19:03:55Z")
“Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Either way, it’s a staggering thought.” - Carl Sagan (attrib.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963.md?page=3)