Awe And Wonder Quotes by Carl Sagan, Michael Lerner, Gerry Spence, Ruskin Bond, Albert Einstein, Immanuel Kant and many others.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Nothing is more contagious than genuine love and genuine care. Nothing is more exhilarating than authentic awe and wonder. Nothing is more exciting than to witness people having the courage to fight for their highest vision.
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
To early man, trees were objects of awe and wonder. The mystery of their growth, the movement of their leaves and branches, the way they seemed to die and come again to life in spring, the sudden growth of the plant from the seed – all these appeared to be miracles as indeed they still are, miracles of nature!
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
One cannot help but be in awe when
[one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity,
of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
[one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity,
of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.
There’s no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That’s the best we can do.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
I’d known that I had the capacity to love, that I enjoyed seeing other people be happy, that I had a real awe and wonder about the beauty of this world.
The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.
By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.
To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty… this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
