Astronomy Quote by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

— Dante Alighieri

When we give our lives to Jesus Christ, the things of earth grow strangely dim. The values of eternity grow increasingly bright.

— David Jeremiah

“Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and lofty majesty, let him turn his gaze away from the lowly objects…

— Blaise Pascal

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

— Thomas de Quincey

“Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal…

— Victor Hugo

If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more…

— Bill Watterson

The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs…

— John Milton

Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast…

— Nachman of Breslov

The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more…

— Victor Hugo

For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no…

— Gerald of Wales