Awe Quotes

565 quotes by 476 authors

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of… — George Eliot
One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me… — Lorna Luft
Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order... — Thomas Paine
We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe. — Anne Robinson
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand… — Toni Morrison
This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that… — Celia Thaxter
I build molecules for a living. I can't begin to tell you how difficult that job is. I stand in awe of God because of… — James Tour
...every day we should stand in awe of Him, as He is with us, and do what is pleasing before Him. If we are unable… — Gregory Palamas
We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy… — William J. Clinton
The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark. — Rajneesh
Death is the road to awe. — Fernando Hernandez
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe... — Immanuel Kant
No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. — Llewelyn Powys
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because… — Bobby Fischer
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one… — Richard Rorty
The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they… — Peter Chrysologus
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ...… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a… — Thomas Paine
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience. — C.S. Lewis
I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the… — Wallace Stevens

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