Awe Quote by John Updike

The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may…

— C. S. Lewis

The more self aware we become, the less judgmental we will be.

— Romany Malco

“Let us call this quality the Original Mind. This mind looked at the world more directly—not through words and received ideas. It was flexible…

— Robert Greene

Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people…

— George Eliot

“An important consequence of these observations is that our consciousness of unexpected events lags considerably behind the real world. Not only do we consciously…

— Stanislas Dehaene

What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

— Epictetus

I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they…

— Sándor Márai

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Cognitive bias will maintain their belief in the impossible long after the facts have been made clear to them. Only when confronted with impending…

— David VanDyke

Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow, wow! Look…

— Anne Lamott

“Believing time is on our side is difficult because the lens of our lives is too narrowly focused. We see only what is in…

— Tina Leigh

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind…

— Erich Fromm