Awe Quotes

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

Good, Eyes, Dead

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
Thomas Paine

Keep, Order, Discourage

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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant

Law, Two, Moral

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

Life, Change, Experience

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.
Persis Khambatta

Insecurity, Insecure, Creative

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.
Thomas Aquinas

Philosophy, Big, Wonder

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard P. Feynman

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
Bono

Jesus, Old, Makes

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
David Bowie

Powerful, Passion, May

Awe and respect are two different things.
Oliver Reed

Respect, Different, Two

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
Miguel de Cervantes

May, Same, Keep

I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.
Shirley MacLaine

I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol.
Roger Moore

Admit, Total, Idol

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
Alex Trebek

Nature, Mother, Wrong

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
Thomas Hobbes

Time, Men, Power

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
William O. Douglas

Speak, Since, Authority

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
William Dean Howells

Respect, Wise, Affection

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.
Benjamin Carson

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff

Life, Death, Cannot

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.
Marcia Wallace

Death, After, Year

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
Theodore Bikel

Give, Sense, Wonder

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
Edward Young

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Walter Bagehot

Himself, Walk, Atmosphere

I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
Rachel McAdams

Love, Parents, Long

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.
Britney Spears

I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.
Monica Lewinsky

Powerful, Real, Person

The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.
Arthur Smith

Book, May, Before

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
Andrew Marvell

Nature, Great, Law

My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.
Jenny Eclair

Love, Strong, Father

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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