Awe Quotes

565 quotes by 471 authors

Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear… — William Wordsworth
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two… — Edward Abbey
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State. — Edward Abbey
One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look… — Carl Rogers
We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great… — Abraham Maslow
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own… — Max Horkheimer
But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on… — Robert Rauschenberg
The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth. — Jim Lovell
Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing — David Blaine
At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were… — Michael Persinger
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as… — William Hazlitt
Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence of the Lord.… — Dave Hunt
Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose. — Gerald Schroeder
Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude. Glow with gratitude and see how awe and joy will make their home in you. — Michael Beckwith
Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and gratitude are primary,… — Gary A. Kowalski
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span… — Elizabeth Aston
Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe. — Lucy Corin
Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without… — Samuel Johnson
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in… — John Ralston Saul
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a… — Thomas Hobbes

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