Awe Quotes

565 Awe quotes by 458 unique authors

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A… — Daniel H. Wilson
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious… — Edward Young
I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost… — Felix Dennis
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens… — Immanuel Kant
After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of… — Christopher Paolini
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. — Douglas Adams
Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what… — Philip Pullman
O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't! — William Shakespeare
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. — Gerry Spence
He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter… — Tad Williams
If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church. — Charles Simic
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens… — Immanuel Kant
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift… — Rachel Carson
When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long… — Eckhart Tolle
This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to… — Frank Herbert
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth… — William Shakespeare
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for… — Rachel Carson
There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense… — Michael Shermer
Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at… — Libba Bray
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that… — William S. Burroughs
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger… — Carl Sagan
She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been… — Charles de Lint
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe.… — Eric Ambler
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds… — John Ruskin

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