Astronomy Quote by Matthew Arnold

And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the…

— Matthew Arnold

“Admire all the stars, but what you really must admire is your very own Sun, the cosmic candle of our beloved Earth!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“thou great star! what would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Of our pasts we seemed to know all we needed to know. Nothing was concealed, and though nothing was overtly revealed, all was known.…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.

— Jack McDevitt

Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

— John Milton

“To-night, as ages hence, people would say this, or shut their doors on them, turn in bereaved agony from them, or toward them with…

— Malcolm Lowry

“At first I did adore a twinkling star But now I worship a celestial sun”

— William Shakespeare

“On Ponkawtasset, since, we took our way, Down this still stream we took our meadowy way, A poet wise has settled, whose fine ray…

— Henry David Thoreau

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,…

— Joseph Addison

“To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?”

— Anaximenes

“Know thyself, and thou shalt know the universe and God.”

— Temple of Apollo at Delphi