“simple but profound”
Describes something that appears straightforward or uncomplicated on the surface but carries deep meaning or significant insight. Often used to praise ideas, statements, or observations that are easy to understand yet intellectually or emotionally powerful. Listen to how native speakers pronounce "simple but profound" in the video clips below.
Hear how "simple but profound" sounds in real speech — 1,000 examples from 10 videos, movies, and TV shows. Channels: Einzelgänger, Lex Fridman, Spark, PowerfulJRE, TED-Ed and 2 more.
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YouTubeEinzelgänger355K views · 2025-01-24
When Life Hurts, Let Go | A Stoic Lesson for Inner Peace
“simple but profound piece of wisdom
comes to fruition, and I quote:”
it perfectly aligns with the natural flow
of the universe? Here’s where Epictetus’ … Ask not that events should happen as you will, but
let your will be that events should happen as they
Play at 14:53
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“I guess a very simple
but profound question,”
So just to wrap things up, … which is, how are you feeling
about the future?
Play at 41:08
YouTubeLex Fridman931K views · 2024-06-19
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434
“It's very simple but profound”
It's a very powerful, profound thing. … if you, like, truly believe in it.
Play at 38:18
YouTubeSpark3.3M views · 2022-11-10
What Matter Makes Up Our Known Universe? | Jim Al-Khalili | Spark
“asked a simple but profound question”
what Turing did in his 1936 paper was … what goes on in the mind of a person
Play at 1:32:01
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“I constantly am searching for simple
but profound insights”
But in the actual
conversation, … at various levels of abstraction.
Play at 2:56:59
YouTubePowerfulJRE984K views · 2026-02-13
Joe Rogan Experience #2454 - Robert Malone, MD
“>> Uh, profound. Uh, simple, but profound.”
Money is the root of all evil. … Yeah.
Play at 1:18:27
YouTubeTED-Ed739K views · 2024-11-26
Why don’t companies want you to repair your stuff? - Aaron Perzanowski
“This may seem like a simple innovation,
but it had a profound effect on the world.”
could be reproduced mechanically,
and at scale. … The standardization of these parts
helped usher in the Industrial Revolution.
Play at 0:33
YouTubeEinzelgänger618K views · 2023-10-28
Self-destructive? It could be your death drive…
“for there). What seemed to be simple, meaningless
child play, Freud saw as a profound but mysterious”
a toy out of sight and say “Fort” (German for
gone) and then retrieve it and say “Da” (German … phenomenon: a human tendency to replicate and
repeat undesirable, possibly traumatic events,
Play at 3:32
YouTubeTechnology Connections1.2M views · 2022-04-26
The Autochrome; Color photos? Just add potatoes.
“but conceptually it’s profoundly simple.”
Yeah, okay, making the screen plate is a really fiddly process … It’s almost amazing that this works at all,
Play at 17:50
YouTubeAndrew Huberman402K views · 2022-10-10
Psychedelics & Neurostimulation for Brain Rewiring | Dr. Nolan Williams
“And the signal is a simple
signal, but it's a profound one,”
to the exact right spot. … which is turn on, stay
on, remember to stay on.
Play at 2:39:57