Awe Quotes - Page 18

• I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them.

  Justin Beckett

  Vision, Mountain, Looks

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• Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Vision, World

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• I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Lying, Believe

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

  Douglas Adams

  Religious, Silly, Ignorance

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• We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Writing, People, Too Much

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

  Karl Rahner

  Men, And Love, Praying

  Karl Rahner (1997). “The Need and the Blessing of Prayer”, p.1, Liturgical Press

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• It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Vision, Way, Impossible

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• Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.

  Carl Sagan

  Order, Opposites, Greek

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.37, Ballantine Books

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• Others can measure their visions by what we see.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Vision, Seeing

  Falco, Nick Cave, Allen Ginsberg (2002). “Viva la poesia”

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• Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.

  Arthur Symons

  Vision, Veils, Able

  Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

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• As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation. (“Cafe Endless: Spring Rain”)

  Nancy Holder

  Spring, Rain, Self

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• Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Change, Confidence, Perspective

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• The longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they can do to each other. You become a scientist as well as an artist, with the lines between increasingly blurred.

  Marjorie Harris

  Eye, Artist, Garden

  Marjorie Harris (1995). “In the Garden: Thoughts on Changing Seasons”, HarperCollins

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• Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Thinking, Vision

  "Selected letters, 1940-1956".

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• Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Eye, Thinking

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• We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

  Frederick Franck

  Vision, Lenses, Looks

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• Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

  Tom Stoppard

  Light, Vision, Information

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

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• Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Vision, Dull

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• If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wise, Art, Intelligent

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance?

  Keith Crown

  Sight, Vision, Looks

  Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

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• ... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

  Susan Griffin

  Perception, Vision, World

  Susan Griffin (1998). “Bending Home: Selected & New Poems, 1967-1998”

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• It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Spiritual, Mistake, Perception

  "Man Visible and Invisible: Examples of Different Types of Men as Seen by Means of Trained Clairvoyance".

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• Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

  Edward Steichen

  Vision, Feels, Seeing

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• Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn't worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning.

  Wendy Beckett

  Art, Flower, Taken

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