Awe Quotes · Page 7

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

— Huangbo Xiyun

As for actors, I'm hugely in awe of Cate Blanchett - and Meryl Streep, obviously.

— Phoebe Dynevor

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind…

— Michelle Rodriguez

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

— Anonymous

Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.

— Dov Davidoff

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

— Laurie Anderson

Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and…

— Walt Whitman

When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past…

— Lady Gregory

I'm, like, not overly into labels. I've been referred to that way, but I tend to think of political cartoonists as constantly…

— Barry Blitt

How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination.…

— Novalis

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St.…

— A. E. Hotchner

Anything that any player does to give back to the community, I'm in awe of, whether you're starting your own foundation, joining…

— Jason Kelce

I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of…

— Karen Duffy

Deep down within anyone there's a flame that maybe had gone dormant that can be fanned or ignited in case it had…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

— Matthew Fox

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

— Thaddeus Golas

We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder…

— Harold S. Kushner

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

— Paul Cezanne

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

— Lou Doillon

The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

— Ben Lerner

I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing.

— FKA twigs

I'm always in awe of accomplished people but never "starstruck".

— Mike Ruiz

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

— Edward Abbey

You can't let any team awe you. If you do, you'll wind up a horseshit player.

— Luke Appling

I want to be constantly in awe of the possibilities of the universe.

— Kameron Hurley

Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.

— Annie Lennox

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

— William James

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

— Anne Robinson

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

— Katherine Boo

Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

— John Milton

“The tree that moves some to tears of joy is to others a green thing that stands in the way. - William…

— Jake Eagle LPC

With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead.

— George Crabbe

As a child in awe of my policeman father, I wanted to grow up to be a cop.

— Mukul Dev

“He felt that,’ Dani said, trembling with joy. ‘He really felt that,’ Sunny squealed. ‘That,’ Leo declared, ‘was artistry.”

— Belinda Kelderhouse

Barry Manilow is a guy who's had a tremendous longevity that few have had in the music business. I'm in awe of…

— Dave Koz

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the…

— Matt Chandler

I've always been in awe of filmmakers and their patience in realizing their vision because I could never do that.

— Mike Patton

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

— Pete Sampras