Quotes About Awe

The naked woman's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

The moment of perceiving something beautiful confers on the perceiver the gift of life.

Beautiful things, as Matisse shows, always carry greetings from other worlds within them.

Cultivate admiration.

The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or could live in them all. It's obvious, it stares you in the fact. There must be a God and he can't know anything about us.

It must be pretty cool being a lawyer, she said in awe. Cool was not an adjective Jake would use. He was forced to admit to himself that it had been a long time since he viewed his profession as something other than tedious.

as the soldiers stood motionless in awe, watching a spectacle they would one day tell to their children and grandchildren.

the most breathtaking and dramatic

Then felt I like like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Like stout Cortes when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific-and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise Silent upon a peak in Darien

But what, without the social thought of thee, Would be the wonders of the sky and sea?

Yet here was a scattered grove of trees, none of them of any particular grandeur.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Every experience has its element of magic.

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.

You always admire what you really dont understand.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.