Quotes About Awe

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.

The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?

The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand

America, you just wanted change is all, a return To the kind of awe experiences after beholding a reign Of gold. A leader whose metallic narcissism is a reflection Of your own.

...gorgeous bright blue sky with some cloudacious beautiness on the fringe.

The night sky is a miracle of infinitude.

Although I've written a few (a very few) poems over the years, I am not a natural poet...and I remain in awe of people who are. The ability to evoke deep emotion, reveal a new facet of the world, or condense an entire story into the limited space and form of a poem (or likewise, of a good song lyric, or the text for a children's picture book) seems like pure magic to me.

I want this on my tombstone: Here lies Terry Gilliam--RIP--'He giggled in awe.

So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?

What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

In fact, whenever I read something as complicated as Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and think about his having written it in longhand, I am not merely awed — the thought gives me a headache.

but the beauty of the youngest was so wonderful that the poverty of language is unable to express its due praise.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery--which is part of its splendour.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

I do get starstruck working with Bruce because even though he is such a nice guy he's a real movie star. I grew up watching his movies it is just really hard to get used to just being around Bruce Willis. I mean, he's Bruce Willis!