Awe Quotes

565 Awe quotes by 458 unique authors

Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic… — Walter Isaacson
The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the… — Margaret Atwood
The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent… — A. J. Jacobs
My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents had done the… — Carlos Castaneda
Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows -… — Khalil Gibran
There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity. — Diana Palmer
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. — Norman Vincent Peale
[True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe… — Justina Chen
How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question… — Janet Fitch
What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers and… — Barry Lopez
How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in… — Michael Shermer
After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it… — Alice Sebold
The only people who are not in awe of Emerson's powerful voice and well-nigh superhuman strength are the members of his own family. He is… — Barbara Mertz
Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when… — Oscar Wilde
As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into… — Nancy Holder
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which… — Nick Flynn
Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe… — Denise Levertov
Are you scared?’ asked Mr. Ibis. ‘Not really.’ ‘Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we walk. They are… — Neil Gaiman
It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of… — Richard Wright
I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels… — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do? — Nicholas Sparks
We stand in awe before that which cannot be seen. We respect with every fiber of our being that which cannot be explained. — Tite Kubo
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward. — Joseph Campbell
And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like… — David Levithan

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