Awe Quotes · Page 5

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

— Charles Spurgeon

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

— Walter Bagehot

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

— Eric Gibbons

Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave, And only cowards dare affront a woman.

— George Farquhar

There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.

— Paul Pearsall

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

— William Shenstone

I can't rave enough about Eloisa James. I'm simply in awe of her talent.

— Julia Quinn

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery…

— Richard P. Feynman

“Every being experiences themselves as the center of their experience. Consciousness is what lies at our very core, and connects us all…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple,…

— Robert Boyle

In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively…

— Patrick Kavanagh

“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked.…

— Julian Jaynes

What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought…

— Barry Lopez

We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however,…

— Joseph Campbell

We are ambassadors of American style, but we're in awe of British style.

— David Lauren

Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe

— Lahiri Mahasaya

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

— Douglas Adams

I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.

— William Shatner

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.

— Christopher Hitchens

“No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.”

— Ilsa J. Bick

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

— Irving Penn

I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol.

— Roger Moore

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

— Anonymous

The older I get, the more I travel the world, the more in awe I am of everything that is European.

— Jack Savoretti

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

— Theodore Bikel

I have such respect and awe for journalists who are able to communicate important information to the masses without sobbing.

— Janet Varney

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

— Benjamin Franklin

The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.

— Arthur Smith

Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's…

— Robert E. Howard

Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

— John Burroughs

I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe…

— Masahiro Tanaka

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

— Anna Journey

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument.

— Thomas Gray

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

— Blaise Pascal

There will always be those who must look into the dark in order to see.

— Alan McGlashan

A person truly evolves from his own silence and one such can keep the people around him in the awe of silence.

— Gopichand Lagadapati

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

— Winston Churchill

“The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.”

— Stephen King