These awe quotes will inspire you. Awe a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging awe quotes, awe sayings, and awe proverbs.
Famous Awe Quotes
- “There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt is awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “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
- “Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
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“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.” ~ John Milton
- “Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of your life.” ~ Ryan Blair
- “Gratitude bestows reverence…..changing forever how we experience life and the world.” ~ John Milton
- “Curiosity has its own reason for existence.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.” ~ Abraham Maslow
- “Self-preservation, nature’s first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.” ~ Andrew Marvell , Awe quotes nature
- “Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.” ~ Ernie J Zelinski
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“He that rises late must trot all day.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What’s begun in anger ends in shame.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I’m in awe of them.” ~ Jessica Chastain
- “If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.” ~ Richard Dawkins
- “If I had influence with the good fairy… I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.” ~ Rachel Carson
- “If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren’t things I don’t love, but when I think about what my body is doing – creating a child – it just blows my mind. I’m in awe of the process and science.” ~ Emily Deschanel
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “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 and the moral law within.” ~ Immanuel Kant
- “Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.” ~ Napoleon Hill
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“What’s a Sun-Dial in the shade?” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe” ~ William Shakespeare
- “A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.” ~ Carl Sagan
- “If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Drive thy business or it will drive thee.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” ~ Carl Sagan
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“Creditors have better memories than debtors.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“He that can have patience can have what he will.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea – massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.” ~ Gene Spafford
- “You may delay, but time will not.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.” ~ Gerry Spence
- “Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.” ~ Alex Trebek
- “I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I’m only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I’m just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.” ~ Karen Duffy
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“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “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
- “Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.” ~ Immanuel Kant
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“Awe and respect are two different things.” ~ Oliver Reed
- “I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren’t available. They just weren’t being written.” ~ Sandra Bullock
- “Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.” ~ William James
- “I stand in awe of my body.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“Well done is better than well said.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of one imminent researcher, that he had learned the language in which God recreated the universe. Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God’s most devine and sacred gift.” ~ William J. Clinton
- “Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility – these are the very foundation of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, in every school.” ~ Yehudi Menuhin
- “The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.” ~ Richard Dawkins
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“When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.” ~ Benjamin Carson
- “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
- “Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.” ~ Lise Meitner
Awe is an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime.
